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HSK
rest / to rest
HSK 1
information / news / message
HSK 2
(piece of) news; information / message / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
interest (on a loan) / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 4
to choke / to stifle / to suffocate
HSK 7-9
breath / smell / odor / flavor
HSK 7-9
closely bound up (idiom); intimately related
HSK 7-9
to gasp for breath / to take a breather
HSK 7-9
(of wind etc) to subside; to die down / to quell; to smooth over (a dispute etc) / to suppress (a rebellion etc)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) prolonged (applause, cheering etc)
HSK 7-9
the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow
HSK 7-9
future prospects / profit / to mature / to grow up
HSK 7-9
to strive unremittingly / self-improvement
HSK 7-9
income (Hong Kong)
to rely on others for the air one breathes (idiom); to depend on sb's whim for one's living
pheromone
(medicine) polyp
to lower interest rates
habitat
interest (from an investment, esp. an endowment)
Sabbath
principal and interest (on a loan)
breath
information; news; message / text message; SMS
holographic
hold one's breath
to have only a breath of life (idiom)
to recover / to recuperate
Xifeng, a county in Guiyang City 貴陽市|贵阳市, Guizhou
to sigh; to gasp (in admiration)
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  *息* | 息* | *息
breath / news / interest (on an investment or loan) / to cease / to stop / to rest / Taiwan pr. [xi2]
to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom); spare the rod and spoil the child
(finance) to raise interest rates
continually / without a break / ceaselessly
lobby / lounge
quietly / noiselessly
well-informed source; person with inside information
annual interest
Xi county in Xinyang 信陽|信阳, Henan
dividend
in an instant a myriad changes (idiom); rapid substantial change
wordless and uncommunicative (idiom); without speaking / taciturn / not providing any news
daily interest on a loan
daily schedule / daily routine
(idiom) in the wink of an eye; in a flash
sound (often with negative, not a sound) / whisper
to divulge secrets
(literary) to rest / to recuperate
a lull (in the storm) / brief break (in rain)
interest rate
(literary) to put down one's burden / to rest / to stay (at an inn etc)
Parthia (ancient country in central Asia)
to rest; to go to sleep / to rest in peace
dying / at one's last gasp
hearsay / gossip
to settle a dispute
pulse
(computing) error message
to yield interest, profit etc / to exhale (Buddhism)
information theory
to have a rest / to stay for the night / to go to bed / to sleep
to calm down / to quell one's anger
Styrax officinalis or Styrax benzoin / benzoin resin (used in TCM) / Benzoinum
low-interest
information science
variable with the times / transient / impermanent
excessively tolerant / to overindulge (sb) / overly conciliatory / to seek appeasement at any price
in a flash / twinkling / ephemeral
to work and rest
(military) Stand at ease!
lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom); fig. to cease / to give in
to inhabit / to live (in a habitat)
to stop / to cease
to cease / to end
information asymmetry; information gap (esp. a difference in access to information that can be exploited for profit)
monthly interest
information system
to lower the interest rate
interest-free
informatization (the Information Age analog of industrialization)
web feed / news feed / syndicated feed
(finance) to raise interest rates
information management
benzoinum / benzoin resin (used in TCM)
lit. to get up at sunrise and work until sunset (proverb) / fig. to lead a plain and hardworking life
message queue (computing)
shared lounge; common room
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) / fig. everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life
chief information officer (CIO)
interest rate
interest coupon / dividend coupon
interest-bearing (bank account)
to be well-informed
nasal polyp
Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Hong Kong
China Defense Science and Technology Information Center (CDSTIC)
daily schedule / work schedule
infographic

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