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出息

chū xi

HSK 6 2-character word

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.