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出息

chū xi

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

出息 (chū xī) means "to yield interest, profit etc; to exhale (Buddhism); future prospects". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 出息 means

1. future prospects
2. profit
3. to mature
4. to grow up

Other readings

出息 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• chū xīto yield interest, profit etc; to exhale (Buddhism)

The characters in 出息

• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 息xībreath; news; interest (on an investment or loan)

Example sentences

• 我没出息。
  I have no future.

Where 出息 is taught

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

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chū xi correctly.
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