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Pīnyīn
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HSK
to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
HSK 3
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  *休* | 休* | *休
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  *休* | 休* | *休
to rest / to stop doing sth for a period of time / to cease / (imperative) don't
complete rest (after an illness)
noon break / lunch break / lunchtime nap
to have a public holiday; to have an official holiday / (Tw) (of a business establishment) to be closed regularly on certain days, as determined by a trade association
to give up / to abandon (a goal etc) / to let sth go / forget it / let the matter drop
HSK 7-9
endlessly / ceaselessly
without stopping to sleep or have a rest (idiom)
to fight to one's last gasp
two-day weekend (abbr. for 雙休日|双休日)
to get thoroughly drunk (idiom) / to get plastered
rest for now / stop (usually imperative form)
(idiom) to chatter endlessly; to talk nonstop
to take deferred time off (to make up for working during the weekend or holidays) / compensatory leave
(idiom) to chatter endlessly; to talk nonstop
to let matters rest
to compensate for working on a holiday by resting on a workday / to compensate for resting on a workday by working on a holiday
to request permission to resign from an official position (old)
(idiom) to let the matter rest; to just let it go; to take it lying down (usu. used in the negative)
to talk incessantly / to chatter on and on
Mogadishu, capital of Somalia (Tw)
to retire / to leave work and rest (euphemism for compulsory retirement of old cadres)
to shift holidays, taking a weekday off
to be on sick leave
to take holidays in rotation / to stagger employees' days off / (agriculture) to lie fallow in rotation
lit. either don't do it, or don't rest (idiom) / fig. if you do it at all, you may as well go the whole hog / in for a penny, in for a pound
angry / wrathful


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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