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休闲

xiū xián

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 休閒

休闲 (xiū xián) means "leisure; relaxing". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 休闲 means

1. leisure
2. relaxation
3. not working
4. idle
5. to enjoy leisure
6. to lie fallow

The characters in 休闲

• 休xiūto rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease
• 闲xiánenclosure; (variant of 闲; unoccupied

Example sentences

• 你有很多休闲时间吗？
  Nǐ yǒu hěn duō xiūxián shíjiān ma?
  Do you have a lot of time to relax?
• 我们的家族农场成为休闲放松的地方，其实是近期的事。就在短短几年前，这里还是我们全职工作的地方。
  It's only very recently that our family farm has become a place of rest and relaxation. Just a few short years ago, it was our full-time job.
• 多伦多市拥有约 160 个社区休闲中心，其中许多设有游泳池、溜冰及冰壶场、体育馆、健身房，以及会议室。
  The city of Toronto has about 160 community recreation centres, many of which include swimming pools, skating and curling rinks, gymnasiums, weight rooms and meeting rooms.

Words starting with 休闲

• 休闲鞋xiū xián xiéleisure shoes
• 休闲裤xiū xián kùcasual pants

Where 休闲 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Leisure & Journey (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiū xián correctly.
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