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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
breath / smell / odor / flavor
HSK 7-9
to strive unremittingly / self-improvement
HSK 7-9
to choke / to stifle / to suffocate
HSK 7-9
future prospects / profit / to mature / to grow up
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
to gasp for breath / to take a breather
HSK 7-9
the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow
HSK 7-9
closely bound up (idiom); intimately related
HSK 7-9
information; news; message / text message; SMS
(medicine) polyp
hold one's breath
holographic
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  *稍* | 稍* | *稍
used in 稍息
interest-free
to inhabit / to live (in a habitat)
Parthia (ancient country in central Asia)
to rest; to go to sleep / to rest in peace
to sigh; to gasp (in admiration)
principal and interest (on a loan)
to lower interest rates
Xi county in Xinyang 信陽|信阳, Henan
in an instant a myriad changes (idiom); rapid substantial change
paracetamol (loanword)
(of a bird) to perch / (of creatures in general) to inhabit; to dwell
to have a rest / to stay for the night / to go to bed / to sleep
low-interest
in a flash / twinkling / ephemeral
dividend
to discount the interest on a bill of exchange
(military) Stand at ease!
hearsay / gossip
to recover / to recuperate
sound (often with negative, not a sound) / whisper
to yield interest, profit etc / to exhale (Buddhism)
to grow and multiply without end
to calm down / to quell one's anger
breath
annual interest
quietly / noiselessly
to keep the peace; to patch up a quarrel (idiom)
to cease / to end
wordless and uncommunicative (idiom); without speaking / taciturn / not providing any news
(idiom) prolonged (applause, cheering etc)
lit. lay down the flag and still the drums (idiom); fig. to cease / to give in
Styrax officinalis or Styrax benzoin / benzoin resin (used in TCM) / Benzoinum
monthly interest
to lower the interest rate
to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom); spare the rod and spoil the child
pulse
variable with the times / transient / impermanent
to rely on others for the air one breathes (idiom); to depend on sb's whim for one's living
to have only a breath of life (idiom)
daily interest on a loan
to stop / to cease
continually / without a break / ceaselessly
information technology; IT
a lull (in the storm) / brief break (in rain)
to raise interest rates
Reference News (PRC limited-distribution daily newspaper)
interest rate
income (Hong Kong)
informatization (the Information Age analog of industrialization)
web feed / news feed / syndicated feed
message queue (computing)
interest (from an investment, esp. an endowment)
to divulge secrets
variant of 息屏
(Internet) echo chamber / filter bubble
while there is life, the fight continues (idiom); to fight to the last
information science
header (computing)
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) / fig. everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life
nasal polyp
(idiom) in the wink of an eye; in a flash
(literary) to put down one's burden / to rest / to stay (at an inn etc)
daily schedule / daily routine
Sabbath
lit. to get up at sunrise and work until sunset (proverb) / fig. to lead a plain and hardworking life
interest rate
to be well-informed
infographic
interest coupon / dividend coupon
well-informed source; person with inside information
Management Information Base / MIB
shared lounge; common room
benzoinum / benzoin resin (used in TCM)
habitat
China Defense Science and Technology Information Center (CDSTIC)
infographic
information theory
see 孜然, cumin
Styracaceae, tree family including silver-bell, snowdrop and benzoin
to turn off the screen
variant of 息肉
Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Hong Kong
lobby / lounge

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