Kanji1 / 10
息 kanji
breath, respiration, son, interest (on money), rest, coming to an end
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ソク
Kun readings
いき
Words with 息
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —息女daughter (esp. of someone of high standing); (another's) daughter
- —息災good health; stopping misfortune; preventing disaster
- —脇息armrest
- —貴息your son
- —胎息Taixi (Taoist practice); embryonic breathing
- —休息所lobby; lounge; recreation room; break room
- —窒息死death by suffocation; death by choking
- —安息香benzoin
- —安息日(Judeo-Christian) Sabbath
- —消息通well-informed person; insider
- —無利息(earning or paying) no interest
- —消息文personal letter; epistolary style
- —長大息deep sigh
- —消息子earpick; probe; sound
- —ご令息son
- —窒息性suffocating; asphyxiating
- —安息角angle of repose
- —長嘆息sighing deeply; giving a deep sigh
- —因循姑息dilly-dallying and temporizing (temporising)
- —気息奄々gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive