歇
xiē HSK5

rest

歇 xiē
rest verb
to rest or take a break from activity

走了这么久大家都累了，坐在这儿歇一会儿吧。

zǒu le zhè​me jiǔ dà​jiā dōu lèi le, zuò zài zhè​r xiē yī​huì​r ba.

Everyone is tired after walking for so long; let's sit down and rest here for a while.

moment verb
a short while or a brief period of time

他在我这儿坐了一歇就走了。

tā zài wǒ zhè​r zuò le yī xiē jiù zǒu le.

He sat with me for a little while and then left.

sleep verb
to go to bed or sleep (dialectal)

天色不早了，你早点儿歇了吧。

tiān​sè bù zǎo le, nǐ zǎo diǎn r xiē le ba.

It's getting late; you should go to bed early.

stop verb
to stop, cease, or halt

雨刚歇了，外面的空气很清新。

yǔ gāng xiē le, wài​miàn de kōng​qì hěn qīng​xīn.

The rain has just stopped, and the air outside is very fresh.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,828th most common 45.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,686th most common 32.5 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
13.1 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
8.94 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+6B47

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