息
xī HSK1

breathe, rest

息 xī
news noun
(bound form) news; information; message
to rest noun
(bound form) to rest; to take a break
breath nounverb
(bound form) breath; to breathe; to pant
to stop verbadverb
(bound form) to cease; to stop; to end; to be extinguished
interest noun
(bound form) interest on a loan or investment; profit
to sigh nounverb
(bound form) to sigh
to grow
(bound form) to grow; to multiply; to reproduce
children
(bound form) one's children; sons and daughters
surname
a Chinese surname
polyp
(bound form) polyp; abnormal growth of tissue (now often written as 瘜 xī)

Frequency
Character
Written text
428th most common 508.8 per million
Movie subtitles
367th most common 407.9 per million appears in 83% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.47 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
45.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+606F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)