Stroke order

休 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人木 (OD), four-corner 2429₀, composition ⿰亻木)

• 𠁫, 咻, 𡜨, 恘, 𢫩, 㳜, 㹯, 𭥶, 𣐾, 烌, 𪻜, 䏫, 𫃢, 𮔄, 䛙, 貅, 𮔏, 銝, 𩗆, 䮌, 鮴, 𪘆
• 𠉟, 𠏕, 𩢮, 鵂(鸺), 𭓭, 茠, 𩂯, 髹, 庥, 㾋, 恷, 𤈢, 烋, 𪀪, 𰂥

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 96, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 440
• Dae Jaweon: page 203, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 117, character 18
• Unihan data for U+4F11

Historical forms of the character 休
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script j14217 j14218 j14219 j14220 j14221 j14222 j14223 j14224 j14225 Bronze inscriptions b08748 b08749 b08750 b08751 b08752 b08753 b08754 b08755 b08756 b08757 b08758 b08759 b08760 b08761 b08762 b08763 b08764 b08765 b08766 b08767 b08768 b08769 b08770 b08771 b08772 b08773 b08774 b08775 b08776 b08777 b08778 b08779 b08780 b08781 b08782 b08783 b08784 b08785 b08786 b08787 b08788 b08789 b08790 b08791 b08793 b08794 b08795 b08796 b08797 b08798 b08799 b08800 b08801 b08802 b08803 b08804 b08805 b08806 b08807 b08808 b08809 Small seal script s04385 Transcribed ancient scripts L11653 L11654 L11655 L11656 L11657 L11658 L11659
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 人 (“man”) + 木 (“tree”) – a man leaning against a tree, resting.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

休

1. to rest; to relax
2. joyous; happy

   休戚與共／休戚与共  ―  xiūqīyǔgòng  ―  to share joys and sorrows; to be happy and sorrowful together

3. (archaic, literary) glory; virtue; goodness (what is worthy of praise and celebration)

   • 虎拜稽首，對揚王休。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     虎拜稽首，对扬王休。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Hǔ bài qǐshǒu, duì yáng Wáng xiū. [Pinyin]

     Hu bowed with his head to the ground,
     And in response displayed the goodness of the King.

4. (archaic, literary) bliss; auspicious omen

   • 此三子者，皆布衣之士也；懷怒未發，休祲降於天，與臣而將四矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     此三子者，皆布衣之士也；怀怒未发，休祲降于天，与臣而将四矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhanguo Ce, circa 5^th – 3^rd centuries BCE

     Cǐ sān zǐ zhě, jiē bùyī zhī shì yě; huái nù wèi fā, xiū jìn jiàng yú tiān, yǔ chén ér jiāng sì yǐ. [Pinyin]

     All of those three worthy men were heroes among humble commoners who, having not even released their wrath, saw omens auspicious to their heroic deeds and ruinous to their opponents dispatched by Heaven. Now, with me, there is about to be a fourth.

5. to stop; to cease

   喋喋不休  ―  diédiébùxiū  ―  to talk endlessly

6. to retire
7. (historical) to cast off one’s wife and send her home; to divorce one's wife
8. do not; don't

   • 心事莫將和淚説，鳳笙休向淚時吹。腸斷更無疑！ [Ci, trad.]
     心事莫将和泪说，凤笙休向泪时吹。肠断更无疑！ [Ci, simp.]

     From: c. 975～978, 李煜 (Li Yu),《望江南》, translated by Xu Yuanchong

     Xīnshì mò jiāng hé lèi shuō, fèngshēng xiū xiàng lèi shí chuī. Chángduàn gèng wúyí! [Pinyin]

     Don't ask about my grief of recent years nor play on flute when tears come out, or else my heart would break, no doubt!

9. a surname
10. A transliteration of the English male given name Hugh

    休·傑克曼／休·杰克曼  ―  Xiū Jiékèmàn  ―  Hugh Jackman

休

1. Obsolete form of 煦 (“warm”).
2. Alternative form of 咻 (“groaning sound”)

• “休”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Hugh 休”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 [Names of The Worlds Peoples: A comprehensive dictionary of names in Roman-Chinese] (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1315: “西方男子教名，亦作姓用”.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “休”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 266.

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū, Jōyō)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: やすまる (yasumaru, 休まる, Jōyō)、やすむ (yasumu, 休む, Jōyō)、やすめる (yasumeru, 休める, Jōyō)、いこう (ikou, 休う)^{←いこふ (ikofu, 休ふ, historical)}、やすみ (yasumi, 休み)、やすらい (yasurai, 休らい)^{←やすらひ (yasurafi, 休らひ, historical)}、やすらう (yasurau, 休らう)^{←やすらふ (yasurafu, 休らふ, historical)}、やむ (yamu, 休む)、やめる (yameru, 休める)、ゆくゆく (yukuyuku, 休く)、よい (yoi, 休い)
• Nanori: たね (tane)、のぶ (nobu)、やす (yasu)、やすみ (yasumi)、やすむ (yasumu)、よし (yoshi)

休(きゅう) • (kyū) ^{←きう (kiu)?}

1. rest; vacation

• 休ませる
• 休まる
• 休み
• 休める
• 休らう

From Middle Chinese 休 (MC xjuw).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [çu]
• Phonetic hangul: [휴]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

休

Wikisource

休 (eumhun 쉴 휴 (swil hyu))

1. hanja form^? of 휴 (“rest; relax”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

休: Hán Nôm readings: hưu

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