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休养

xiū yǎng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 休養

休养 (xiū yǎng) means "to recuperate; to recover; to convalesce". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 休养 means

1. to recuperate
2. to recover
3. to convalesce

The characters in 休养

• 休xiūto rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease
• 养yǎngto raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets)

Example sentences

• 我只想休养。
  I just want to rest.

Words starting with 休养

• 休养生息xiū yǎng shēng xīto recover; to recuperate

Sounds the same

Read xiū yǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 修养accomplishment; training; self-cultivation

Where 休养 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiōng–xū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiū yǎng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.