退休(tuì xiū): to retire (from the workforce)
to retire (from the workforce)
Character breakdown
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Word information
- Pinyin
- tuì xiū
- Meaning
- to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
- HSK level
- HSK 3
- Characters
- 2
- Traditional
- Same
Appears in lessons
退休 is taught in these textbook lessons.
Example sentences
How 退休 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
我去年退休了。
wǒ qù nián tuì xiū le
I retired last year.
汤姆说他不想退休。
tāng mǔ shuō tā bù xiǎng tuì xiū
Tom said that he doesn't want to retire.
Related words
Common words sharing a character with 退休 — tap one to open its word page.
rest
to go on vacation; to have a holiday; to take leave
to withdraw
leisure
to bounce (a check)
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
to decline
(medicine) (loanword) shock; to go into shock
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