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TranslingualEdit
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Han characterEdit
息 (radical 61, 心+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹山心 (HUP), four-corner 26330, composition ⿱自心)
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 385, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10601
- Dae Jaweon: page 717, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2291, character 4
- Unihan data for U+606F
ChineseEdit
Glyph originEdit
| Characters in the same phonetic series (息) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 息 | *slɯɡ |
| 熄 | *slɯɡ |
| 媳 | *slɯɡ |
| 鄎 | *slɯɡ |
| 瘜 | *slɯɡ |
| 蒠 | *slɯɡ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 自 (“nose”) + 心 (“heart”) – to breath (life) through one’s nose. Note that this uses the older meaning of 自, as “nose”, rather than “self”.
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-sak (“breath; life; to breathe”). Cognate with Jingpho sa' (“to breathe”), Burmese အသက် (a.sak).
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
PronunciationEdit
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DefinitionsEdit
息
- to breathe; to pant
- to sigh; to blow
- to stop; to subside; to cease
- to put a stop to; to stop
- to rest; to have a rest
- to grow; to develop
- to calm down; to appease
- breath; life
- one's own children
- interest; dividends
- message; news
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 息
Etymology 2Edit
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息 | |
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| variant forms | 塞 Cantonese; Hakka 蝨／虱 Hakka | |
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
息
- (Cantonese, Hakka, Hainanese, Leizhou Min) great-grandchild
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
| For pronunciation and definitions of 息 – see 熄 (“to extinguish; to go out”). (This character, 息, is the second-round simplified form of 熄.) |
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JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
息
ReadingsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Compounds
EtymologyEdit
| Kanji in this term |
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| 息 |
| いき Grade: 3 |
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PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
- breath
- 息をする
- iki o suru
- breathe
- 息をする
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
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OkinawanEdit
KanjiEdit
息
EtymologyEdit
Cognate with Japanese 息 (iki).
NounEdit
Derived termsEdit
- 一息 (ちゅいーち, chuīchi, “a single breath, puff; a pause; a small effort”)