休息
xiū xi
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To rest, to take a break, or to have time off work. 休息一下 is 'take a short break', and 星期天我休息 can mean 'Sunday is my day off'. A length of time goes after it: 休息十分钟 'rest for ten minutes'. The second syllable has a neutral tone.
Nghỉ, nghỉ ngơi; cũng có nghĩa là được nghỉ làm. 休息一下 là “nghỉ một lát”; 星期天我休息 có thể hiểu là “chủ nhật tôi được nghỉ”. Thời gian nghỉ đặt sau: 休息十分钟 (nghỉ mười phút). Âm tiết sau đọc thanh nhẹ.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “休息” mean?
To rest, to take a break, or to have time off work. 休息一下 is 'take a short break', and 星期天我休息 can mean 'Sunday is my day off'. A length of time goes after it: 休息十分钟 'rest for ten minutes'. The second syllable has a neutral tone.
Is “休息” formal or informal?
休息 is generally neutral.