HSK 5 · Work

退休 tuìxiū “to retire (from the workforce)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 退休 means

  1. to retire (from the workforce)
  2. to go into retirement

How to say 退休

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale退tuì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale休xiū1st tone, high and level

退休 in a sentence

  1. 我去年退休了。

    Wǒ qùnián tuìxiū le.

    I retired last year.

    Sentence #819411 from Tatoeba

  2. 他退休的时候，他儿子接手了他的生意。

    Tā tuìxiū de shíhou, tā érzi jiēshǒu le tā de shēngyi.

    When he retired, his son took over his business.

    Sentence #334035 from Tatoeba

  3. 我父亲六十岁就要退休了。

    Wǒ fùqīn liùshí suì jiùyào tuìxiū le.

    My father will retire at sixty.

    Sentence #782786 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 退休 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 退 (tuì) with each of its parts in a different colour
退tuìto retreat; to withdraw
  • 艮stopping · gěnSound part
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuòMeaning part

辶 hints at the meaning (walking); 艮 (gěn) hints at the sound. Compare it with tuì.

The character 休 (xiū) with each of its parts in a different colour
休xiūto rest
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 木tree · mù

Memory aidA person 亻 resting against a tree 木: to rest.

How to write 退休

退 9 strokes · 休 6 strokes

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退休 (tuìxiū) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 退休 (tuìxiū). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 退休

Words with 退

退tuì · to move back退步tuìbù · to regress撤退chètuì · to retreat衰退shuāituì · to decline

Words with 休

休息xiūxi · to rest休假xiūjià · to take leave休闲xiūxián · leisure

More words: Work & Career

设计shèjì · to design失业shīyè · unemployment实习shíxí · to do an internship收据shōujù · receipt文件wénjiàn · document项目xiàngmù · item销售xiāoshòu · to sell行业hángyè · trade

FAQs

退休 (tuìxiū) means “to retire (from the workforce)” or “to go into retirement”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it tuìxiū: tuì with a 4th tone, then xiū with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 退休 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tuixiu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 退休 from the suggestions. Typing tuixiu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
退休 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.