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休 — to rest

to rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease; don't

Pinyin
xiū · Xiū
Strokes
6
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — xiū, Xiū — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 休: 6 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

休 — 6 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 休 in the HSK syllabus: 9

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 休息xiūxirest; to restHSK 1
  2. 休假xiūjiàto go on vacation; to have a holiday; to take leaveHSK 3
  3. 退休tuìxiūto retire; to go into retirementHSK 5
  4. 休闲xiūxiánleisure; relaxation; not working; idleHSK 5
  5. 罢休bàxiūto give up; to abandon; to let sth go; forget itHSK 7–9
  6. 休克xiūkèshock; to go into shockHSK 7–9
  7. 休眠xiūmiándormant; dormant; to hibernateHSK 7–9
  8. 休想xiūxiǎngdon't think; don't imagineHSK 7–9
  9. 休养xiūyǎngto recuperate; to recover; to convalesceHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.