息

息 U+606F, 息 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-606F ← 恮 [U+606E] CJK Unified Ideographs 恰 → [U+6070]

Stroke order

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

• 媳, 𢥷, 㮩, 㴧, 熄, 瘜, 蒠, 鎴

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

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ sik (“tree, wood”). Compare Burmese သစ် (sac, “wood, timber”).

息 (*sik)

1. wood

• Hill, Nathan W. (2017) “Songs of the Bailang: A New Transcription with Etymological Commentary”, in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient‎^[1], volume 103, pages 386—429

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 自 (“nose”) + 心 (“heart”) – to breathe (life) through one’s nose. Note that 自 originally meant “nose” and was later borrowed for “self”.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-sak (“breath; life; to breathe”). Cognate with Jingpho sa' (“to breathe”), Burmese အသက် (a.sak).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

simp. and trad.		息

息

1. to breathe; to pant
2. to sigh; to blow
3. to stop; to subside; to cease
4. to put a stop to; to stop
5. to rest; to have a rest
6. to grow; to develop
7. to calm down; to appease
8. breath; life
9. one's own children
10. interest; dividends
11. message; news

simp. and trad.		息
alternative forms		塞 Cantonese; Hakka 蝨／虱 Hakka

息

1. (Cantonese, Hakka, Hainanese, Leizhou Min, Zhongshan Min) great-grandchild (Classifier: 個／个 c)

For pronunciation and definitions of 息 – see 熄 (“to extinguish; to go out; to turn off; to switch off”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 熄).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

• “息”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “息”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 251.

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. breath
2. live
3. give birth
4. nurture
5. spread, multiply
6. rest
7. come to an end

• Go-on: そく (soku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しょく (shoku)^{←しよく (syoku, historical)}
• Kun: いき (iki, 息, Jōyō)、やすむ (yasumu, 息む)、やめる (yameru)
• Nanori: やす (yasu)

Kanji in this term
息
いき Grade: 3
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 息 – see the following entry.

【いき】 [noun] breath

(This term, 息, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Kanji in this term
息
むすこ Grade: 3
irregular

For pronunciation and definitions of 息 – see the following entry.

【息子むすこ】 [noun] (humble) a son (male child) [noun] (euphemistic, humorous) penis

(This term, 息, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)

From Middle Chinese 息 (MC sik). Recorded as Middle Korean 식〮 (sík) (Yale: sik) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource

息 (eumhun 숨쉴 식 (sumswil sik))

1. hanja form^? of 식 (“breath”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Kun: いーち (īchi, 息)

Cognate with Japanese 息 (iki).

息(いーち) (īchi) 

1. breath

息: Hán Nôm readings: tức

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