甘休

Chinese

		sweet; willingly; Gansu province (abbrev.)	to rest
simp. and trad. (甘休)		甘	休

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gānxiū

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢ ㄒㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹ jau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gānxiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢ ㄒㄧㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gansiou
    • Wade–Giles: kan¹-hsiu¹
    • Yale: gān-syōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ganshiou
    • Palladius: ганьсю (ganʹsju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵⁵ ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam¹ jau¹
    • Yale: gām yāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹ jau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem¹ yeo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵ jɐu̯⁵⁵/

Verb

甘休

1. to be willing to give up

Synonyms

• 中斷／中断 (zhōngduàn)
• 中止 (zhōngzhǐ)
• 休止 (xiūzhǐ)
• 停 (tíng)
• 停歇 (tíngxiē)
• 停止 (tíngzhǐ)
• 夭閼／夭阏 (yǎo'è)
• 干休 (gānxiū) (literary)
• 放煞 (Min Nan)
• 斷站／断站 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 斷節／断节 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 暫停／暂停 (zàntíng) (temporarily)
• 歇 (xiē)
• 止 (zhǐ) (literary, or in compounds)
• 止息 (zhǐxī)
• 止煞 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 瀦／潴 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 煞 (Hokkien)
• 煞手 (Hokkien)
• 終止／终止 (zhōngzhǐ)
• 絕／绝 (jué) (literary, or in compounds)
• 罷／罢
• 罷休／罢休 (bàxiū) (chiefly in the negative)
• 罷手／罢手 (bàshǒu)
• 間斷／间断
• 須／须 (xū) (literary)
• 頓／顿