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(2) Interest on loan: 年息，月息，日息 annual, monthly, daily interest;
起息期 day when capital bears interest;
付息 pay the interest;
股息 stock dividend;
出息 bear interest, (fig.) productive;
有出息 (of young men) will “bear fruit”--be of some use;
沒出息 of no use--will never amount to anything.
(3) News: 消息 news, report.
(4) Breath: 氣息，鼻息 breathing;
屏息 hold one's breath in fear or rapt attention;
一息尚存 so long as this breath is left--alive;
喘息 gasp for breath;
瞬息 in a wink;
間不容息 in a split second;
息息相關 vitally interrelated;
歎息 a sigh, also to sigh;
太息，長太息 draw a deep sigh.
(2) To rest, stop, cease: 安息，休息，歇息，
息 to stop for rest;事遂息 (LL) the matter was then closed, affair was settled.
(3) V.t., to stop: 息交 drop friendship;
息兵，息戰 stop war;
息爭 stop quarrel;
息怒 stop anger, be pacified;
息念頭 drop idea, usu. in pursuing lover, but also other schemes;
息謗 kill the rumor.
2.息婦 [xi2fu4], n., daughter-in-law.
3.息耗 [xi2hao4], n., news, esp. report of sickness, battle.
4.息肩 [xi2jian1], v.i., to lay down the burden (“ease the shoulder”).
5.息借 [xi2jie4], v.i., borrow with interest.
6.息款 [xi2kuan3], n., interest from deposit.
7.息脈 [xi2mo4], n., pulse beat.
8.息男 [xi2nan2], n., one's own son.
9.息女 [xi2nU3], n., one's own daughter.
10.息票 [xi2piao4], n., interest coupon.
11.息壤 [xi2rang3], n., (AC) fertile soil.
12.息事 [xi2shi4], v.i., to settle affair: 息事寧人 a policy of compromise to let everybody have peace.
13.息土 [xi2tu3], n., (AC) see [xi2rang3]↑.
14.息影 [xi2ying3], v.i., to retire from activities (in some place).