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息 — breath; news; interest

breath; news; interest; to cease; to stop; to rest

Pinyin
xī
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 息: 10 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.

息 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 息 in the HSK syllabus: 14

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. 消息xiāoxinews; information; messageHSK 4
  3. 信息xìnxīinformation; news; messageHSK 4
  4. 利息lìxīinterestHSK 6
  5. 出息chūxifuture prospects; profit; to mature; to grow upHSK 7–9
  6. 川流不息chuānliú-bùxīthe stream flows without stopping; unending flowHSK 7–9
  7. 喘息chuǎnxīto gasp for breath; to take a breatherHSK 7–9
  8. 经久不息jīngjiǔ-bùxīprolongedHSK 7–9
  9. 平息píngxīto subside; to die down; to quell; to smooth overHSK 7–9
  10. 气息qìxībreath; smell; odor; flavorHSK 7–9
  11. 息息相关xīxī-xiāngguānclosely bound up; intimately relatedHSK 7–9
  12. 窒息zhìxīto choke; to stifle; to suffocateHSK 7–9
  13. 自强不息zìqiáng-bùxīto strive unremittingly; self-improvementHSK 7–9
  14. 作息zuòxīto work and restHSK 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.