| 息 | 1221A10 91.72 | 部居  | 畫數 10 | ㄒㄧˊ [xi2] | ||
| N. | (1) Children: 子息 one’s children and children's wives (u.f. 媳): 息婦，息男，息女 [xi2fu4], [xi2nan2], [xi2nU3]↓. (2) Interest on loan: 年息，月息，日息 annual, monthly, daily interest; 起息期 day when capital bears interest; 付息 pay the interest; 股息 stock dividend; 出息 bear interest, (fig.) productive; 有出息 (of young men) will “bear fruit”--be of some use; 沒出息 of no use--will never amount to anything. (3) News: 消息 news, report. (4) Breath: 氣息，鼻息 breathing; 屏息 hold one's breath in fear or rapt attention; 一息尚存 so long as this breath is left--alive; 喘息 gasp for breath; 瞬息 in a wink; 間不容息 in a split second; 息息相關 vitally interrelated; 歎息 a sigh, also to sigh; 太息，長太息 draw a deep sigh. | |||||
| V.i. & t. | (1) To grow: 滋息，蕃息 (of living things) grow and multiply. (2) To rest, stop, cease: 安息，休息，歇息，  息 to stop for rest;事遂息 (LL) the matter was then closed, affair was settled. (3) V.t., to stop: 息交 drop friendship; 息兵，息戰 stop war; 息爭 stop quarrel; 息怒 stop anger, be pacified; 息念頭 drop idea, usu. in pursuing lover, but also other schemes; 息謗 kill the rumor. | |||||
| Words | 1. 息錢 [xi2qian2], n., interest money. 2. 息婦 [xi2fu4], n., daughter-in-law. 3. 息耗 [xi2hao4], n., news, esp. report of sickness, battle. 4. 息肩 [xi2jian1], v.i., to lay down the burden (“ease the shoulder”). 5. 息借 [xi2jie4], v.i., borrow with interest. 6. 息款 [xi2kuan3], n., interest from deposit. 7. 息脈 [xi2mo4], n., pulse beat. 8. 息男 [xi2nan2], n., one's own son. 9. 息女 [xi2nU3], n., one's own daughter. 10. 息票 [xi2piao4], n., interest coupon. 11. 息壤 [xi2rang3], n., (AC) fertile soil. 12. 息事 [xi2shi4], v.i., to settle affair: 息事寧人 a policy of compromise to let everybody have peace. 13. 息土 [xi2tu3], n., (AC) see [xi2rang3]↑. 14. 息影 [xi2ying3], v.i., to retire from activities (in some place). | |||||