xiū
rest
Depicts a person (亻) resting under a tree (木).
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰ(r)u | xjuw | xiū | rest (v.) |
*qʰ(r)u | xjuw | xiū | blessing |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 57.8888% of movies
715th most common character in movies
1082nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+4F11 |
Shuowen | “休,息止也。从人依木。庥,休或从广。” |
Sources
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