息

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 自 (“nose”) + 心 (“heart”) – to breath (life) through one’s nose. Note that this uses the older meaning of 自, as “nose”, rather than “self”.

Han character

息 (radical 61 心+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹山心 (HUP), four-corner 2633₀, composition ⿱自心)

1. rest, put stop to, end, cease
2. breath

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Cantonese

Hanzi

息 (Yale sik1)

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Hmong

Hanzi

息

1. rest

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Japanese

Kanji

息 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: そく (soku)
• Kun: いき (iki), やすむ (yasumu), やめる (yameru)

Noun

息 (hiragana いき, romaji iki)

1. breath

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Korean

Hanja

息 (hangeul 식, revised sik, McCune-Reischauer sik, Yale sik)

References

• KangXi: page 385, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10601
• Dae Jaweon: page 717, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2291, character 4
• Unihan data for U+606F

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Mandarin

Hanzi

息 (pinyin xī (xi1), Wade-Giles hsi¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

息 (tức)