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休 (pinyin xiū, "to rest (in 休息)") is an HSK 2 Mandarin character with 6 strokes, built on the radical 亻.

New
xiū

to rest (in 休息)

Tone 1 · First tone (high level)

Radical
Strokes
6
HSK
2 · tier 2b

Commonly confused with

Characters this one is often mistaken for — same number of strokes, similar silhouette, single-component differences. Curated, not derived.

Radical family

Other characters built on the same radical . Often shares meaning category.

Pinyin neighbors

Characters with the same rime -iou, same-tone matches first. Many are true phonetic relatives; others are coincidental.

HanziFluency

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