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退休

tuì xiū

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

退休 (tuì xiū) means "to retire (from work)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 退休 means

1. to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement

The characters in 退休

• 退tuìto retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline
• 休xiūto rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease

Example sentences

• 我退休了。
  I'm retired.
• 汤姆退休了。
  Tom's retired.
• 汤姆刚退休。
  Tom has just retired.
• 我去年退休了。
  I retired last year.
• 我想早点退休。
  I want to retire soon.
• 汤姆该退休了。
  Tom should retire.

Words starting with 退休

• 退休金tuì xiū jīnretirement pension; pension payments received after retirement
• 退休金双轨制tuì xiū jīn shuāng guǐ zhìsee 养老金双轨制

Where 退休 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Escape, Retirement & Evasion (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 tuì xiū correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.