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rest / to rest
HSK 1
other / (sth or sb) else / the rest
HSK 2
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  *落* | 落* | *落
to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement
HSK 4
to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute) / (of a matter) to be determined by; to be up to (sb)
HSK 4
the rest / the others / remaining / remainder / apart from them
HSK 4
to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute) / (often used in the negative) to care about
HSK 4
that's right / sure! / rest assured! / that's good / can't go wrong
HSK 4
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  *歇* | 歇* | *歇
to rest / to take a break / to stop / to halt / (dialect) to sleep / a moment / a short while
HSK 5
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  *托* | 托* | *托
to hold up in one's hand; to support with one's palm / sth serving as a support: a prop, a rest (e.g. arm rest) / (bound form) a shill / to ask; to beg; to entrust (variant of 託|托) / torr (unit of pressure)
HSK 6
solely engrossed in one thing / just (one thing, no need to worry about the rest) / simply / by all means / please feel free / do not hesitate (to ask for sth)
HSK 6
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  *趴* | 趴* | *趴
to lie on one's stomach / to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc) / (Tw) percent
HSK 7-9
things like this (idiom); and so on / and the rest / etc
HSK 7-9
at ease / to feel relieved / to set one's mind at rest / to keep one's mind on sth
HSK 7-9
whereabouts / place to settle / reliable source (of funds etc) / (of responsibility for a matter) to rest with sb / settlement / solution
HSK 7-9
completely secure / a sure thing / rest assured
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  *棲* | 棲* | *棲
to perch / to rest (of birds) / to dwell / to live / to stay
unrelenting / without stopping to rest
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  *休* | 休* | *休
to rest / to stop doing sth for a period of time / to cease / (imperative) don't
eternal rest (i.e. death)
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  *寢* | 寢* | *寢
(bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest / (bound form) bedroom / (bound form) imperial tomb / (literary) to stop; to cease
to sleep peacefully (idiom) / (fig.) to rest easy / to be free of worries
to cease fire / armistice / rested troops
capital / assets / savings / nest egg / (fig.) reputation / laurels (to rest upon) / old edition of a book / (tree) trunk
lit. cannot rest or eat in peace (idiom) / fig. extremely worried and troubled
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  *息* | 息* | *息
breath / news / interest (on an investment or loan) / to cease / to stop / to rest / Taiwan pr. [xi2]
complete rest (after an illness)
another name for Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong as principal or ancestor of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳 / Mt Tai as resting place for departed souls
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  *塈* | 塈* | *塈
(literary) to plaster / (literary) to pick up / (literary) to rest
to work and rest
to sleep soundly / (fig.) to rest easy / to be free of worries
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  *棳* | 棳* | *棳
small pillars that support the roof, those which rest on the main beam
rest (music)
lit. to wait for dawn, one's head resting on a spear (idiom) / fig. fully prepared and biding one's time before the battle
to rest; to go to sleep / to rest in peace
to rest / to relax / to take a break
to have a rest / to stay for the night / to go to bed / to sleep
to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom)
lit. the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom) / fig. (of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another
to be cut off from the rest of the world (idiom)
to stop on the way for a rest
to strike a balance between work and rest (idiom)
to lean on / to rest against / to rely on / support / backing / back of a chair
to retire / to leave work and rest (euphemism for compulsory retirement of old cadres)
without stopping to sleep or have a rest (idiom)
to have a break / to rest
to rest / to recuperate / to regain composure
lit. to rest and fly together (idiom) / fig. to live in each other's pockets / to be inseparable
hand gesture in traditional dances (joined thumb and middle finger, the rest extended)
work and rest
buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
to stop for a rest
(literary) to take a rest / (literary) to cease
(fig.) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life
(literary) to rest / to recuperate
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  *枕* | 枕* | *枕
(bound form) pillow / to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. [zhen4])
(literary) to put down one's burden / to rest / to stay (at an inn etc)
to let matters rest
Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical
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  *呬* | 呬* | *呬
to rest
postal kiosk / (old) rest shelter for couriers
to rest for a bit / to take a breather
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  *憩* | 憩* | *憩
to rest
lit. spare valor for sale (idiom); fig. after former successes, still ready for more work / not resting on one's laurels
He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.
satisfied with one's accomplishment and arrogant as a result (idiom); resting on one's laurels and despising others
grasp this fundamental point and all the rest will follow (idiom)
to rest / to take a break
to make a rest stop at a hotel / to put sth into storage
to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting
eternal rest (i.e. death)
to sit kneeling with legs folded underneath the thighs and buttocks resting on the heels
lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
chin rest (e.g. for a violin)
to let the dough rest
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
he who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night; you can rest with a clear conscience
rest for now / stop (usually imperative form)
to rest and reorganize (military)
to accompany a deceased person to his last resting place; to hold a funeral
take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan) / keep what is good, discard the rest / You need to be selective when studying. / In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas.
to eat without working (idiom) / to take one's pay and not care about the rest
good people are at peace with themselves, (but) there is no rest for the wicked
Toushoudaiji, the temple in Nara, Japan founded by Tang dynastic Buddhist monk Jianzhen or Ganjin 鑒真和尚|鉴真和尚 and his last resting place
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  *唞* | 唞* | *唞
to take a rest (Cantonese)
the master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you / you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
with one's heart at ease and one's spirit at rest (idiom)
rest area
to rest one's chin in one's hand
to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom); to relax from fighting
equally true for (all the rest) / the same thing applies (for everyone)
to compensate for working on a holiday by resting on a workday / to compensate for resting on a workday by working on a holiday
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) / fig. everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life
overweight from overwork (the supposition that white collar workers become fat as a consequence of factors associated with being under pressure at work, including irregular diet, lack of exercise and inadequate rest)
to let the dough rest
to put sth to rest / calm down a bit!
to drift without a resting place (idiom) / roving / errant / vagrant / erratic


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