歇

歇 U+6B47, 歇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B47 ← 歆 [U+6B46] CJK Unified Ideographs 歈 → [U+6B48]

Translingual

Han character

歇 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日女弓人 (AVNO), four-corner 6778₂, composition ⿰曷欠)

1. rest, stop, lodge

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 570, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16141
• Dae Jaweon: page 958, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2145, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6B47

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Chinese

trad.		歇
simp. #		歇

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 歇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (曷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
愒	*kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad
馤	*qaːds
靄	*qaːds, *qaːd
餲	*qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd
喝	*qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd
揭	*kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad
偈	*ɡrads, *ɡrad
猲	*kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad
葛	*kaːd
輵	*kaːd
獦	*klaːd, *rab
渴	*kʰaːd, *ɡrad
嵑	*kʰaːd
暍	*qʰaːd, *qad
曷	*ɡaːd
褐	*ɡaːd
鶡	*ɡaːd
毼	*ɡaːd
蝎	*ɡaːd
鞨	*ɡaːd, *ɢljad
遏	*qaːd
齃	*qaːd
堨	*qaːd
擖	*kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb
楬	*kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad
朅	*kʰrad
藒	*kʰrad
竭	*ɡrad, *ɡad
碣	*ɡrad, *ɡad
羯	*kad
鍻	*kad
歇	*qʰad
蠍	*qʰad
謁	*qad

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 歇

1. to rest; to relax
2. to take a break; to stop; to cease
3. to decline; to decay; to fade
4. to dissipate; to diffuse
5. a short moment
6. (Teochew) to stop
7. (dialectal) to sleep
8. (dated Shanghainese) Used to indicate that a verb has been experienced by the speaker.

   Template:zh-syn

   先起頭來歇過否？勿曾來歇過 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   先起头来歇过否？勿曾来歇过 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   From: 2010: Qian Nairong, 《從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態》 (Tenses and Aspects? Old Shanghainese as Found in the Book Huyu Bian Shang)

   Have [you] been here in the beginning? No, [I] have not been here

Synonyms

• (to rest):

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• 休息
• 休憩 (xiūqì) (literary)
• 停歇 (tíngxiē)
• 停睏／停困 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 喘氣／喘气 (chuǎnqì) (to take a breather)
• 安息 (ānxī)
• 憩息 (qìxī) (literary)
• 放尞 (Taiwanese Hakka)
• 敨 (tau²) (Cantonese, Hakka)
• 歇喘 (Hokkien, to take a breather)
• 歇息 (xiēxi)
• 歇氣／歇气 (xiēqì) (to take a breather)
• 歇𤺪 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 歇睏／歇困 (Hakka, Hokkien)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 休息 (“to rest; to take a break”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		休息, 歇息
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	歇, 休息
	Taiwan	休息
	Singapore	休息
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	歇
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	歇
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	歇氣, 歇
	Wuhan	歇, 歇氣
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	歇, 休息
	Hefei	歇
Cantonese	Guangzhou	敨, 歇
	Hong Kong	敨, 歇, 休息
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	敨
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	敨
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	敨
	Dongguan	敨
	Yangjiang	敨, 歇
Gan	Nanchang	歇
Hakka	Meixian	歇, 敨
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	歇睏, 休息
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	歇睏, 休息
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	歇睏, 休息
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	歇睏, 休息
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	歇睏, 休息
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	歇睏
	Hong Kong	敨
Jin	Taiyuan	歇
Northern Min	Jian'ou	歇
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	歇
Southern Min	Xiamen	歇, 歇睏
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	歇睏
	Quanzhou	歇睏
	Zhangzhou	歇睏
	Taipei	歇, 歇睏
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	歇
	Kaohsiung	歇, 歇睏
	Yilan	歇, 歇睏
	Changhua (Lukang)	歇, 歇睏
	Taichung	歇睏
	Tainan	歇, 歇睏
	Hsinchu	歇睏
	Kinmen	歇睏
	Penghu (Magong)	歇睏
	Singapore (Hokkien)	休息, 歇
	Manila (Hokkien)	休息
	Chaozhou	歇乏, 歇睏
	Puning	歇, 歇乏, 休息
Wu	Shanghai	歇作, 休息
	Suzhou	歇, 休息
	Wenzhou	歇, 休息
Xiang	Changsha	歇氣
	Shuangfeng	歇氣

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

歇

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こち (kochi)
• Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)
• Kun: やめる (yameru, 歇める)、つきる (tsukiru)

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Korean

Hanja

歇 • (heol) (hangeul 헐, revised heol, McCune–Reischauer hŏl, Yale hel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

歇: Hán Nôm readings: hết, hít, yết, hét, hiết, hớt

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