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HSK
information / news / message
HSK 2
rest / to rest
HSK 1
interest (on a loan) / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 4
(piece of) news; information / message / CL: 條|条
HSK 3
holographic
to rely on others for the air one breathes (idiom); to depend on sb's whim for one's living
(idiom) prolonged (applause, cheering etc)
HSK 7-9
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) / fig. everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life
Reference News (PRC limited-distribution daily newspaper)
(of wind etc) to subside; to die down / to quell; to smooth over (a dispute etc) / to suppress (a rebellion etc)
HSK 7-9
breath / smell / odor / flavor
HSK 7-9
(finance) to raise interest rates
to work and rest
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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 choke / to stifle / to suffocate
HSK 7-9
the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow
HSK 7-9
continually / without a break / ceaselessly
low-interest
income (Hong Kong)
to lower the interest rate
sound (often with negative, not a sound) / whisper
excessively tolerant / to overindulge (sb) / overly conciliatory / to seek appeasement at any price
to gasp for breath / to take a breather
HSK 7-9
wordless and uncommunicative (idiom); without speaking / taciturn / not providing any news
future prospects / profit / to mature / to grow up
HSK 7-9
dying / at one's last gasp
to strive unremittingly / self-improvement
HSK 7-9
annual interest
to recover / to recuperate
to sigh; to gasp (in admiration)
to stop / to cease
(finance) to raise interest rates
in a flash / twinkling / ephemeral
(literary) to rest / to recuperate
interest (from an investment, esp. an endowment)
instant message
hearsay / gossip
(computing) error message
insider information
interest-free
dividend
to be still angry
interest-bearing (bank account)
(of a bird) to perch / (of creatures in general) to inhabit; to dwell
to yield interest, profit etc / to exhale (Buddhism)
genetic information
to divulge secrets
hold one's breath
header (computing)
lit. to get up at sunrise and work until sunset (proverb) / fig. to lead a plain and hardworking life
to have a rest / to stay for the night / to go to bed / to sleep
breath
Parthia (ancient country in central Asia)
to rest; to go to sleep / to rest in peace
to inhabit / to live (in a habitat)
to grow and multiply without end
information; news; message / text message; SMS
to lower interest rates
monthly interest
a lull (in the storm) / brief break (in rain)
principal and interest (on a loan)
pulse
(military) Stand at ease!
to discount the interest on a bill of exchange
to snort
interest-free
daily interest on a loan
variable with the times / transient / impermanent
(literary) to take a rest / (literary) to cease
quietly / noiselessly
to cease / to end
in a flash / twinkling / ephemeral


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