HSK 6 · Ideas

出息 chūxi “promise” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 出息 means

  1. promise
  2. prospects (of a person)
  3. future prospects
  4. profit
  5. to mature
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to grow up

How to say 出息

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale出chū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own息xineutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

出息 in a sentence

  1. 我没出息。

    Wǒ méi chūxi.

    I’m a good-for-nothing.

    Sentence #1169923 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 出息 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 出 (chū) with each of its parts in a different colour
出chūto go out; to come out
  • 屮sprout · chè
  • 凵open box · kǎn

Memory aidA foot stepping up out of an opening 凵: to go out.

The character 息 (xī) with each of its parts in a different colour
息xībreathlight in 出息
  • 自self · zì
  • 心heart · xīn

How to write 出息

出 5 strokes · 息 10 strokes

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

Words related to 出息

Words with 出

出租车chūzūchē · taxi出chū · to go out出国chūguó · to go abroad出来chūlái · to come out出门chūmén · to go out出去chūqù · to go out出院chūyuàn · to leave hospital出生chūshēng · to be born出现chūxiàn · to appear演出yǎnchū · to act (in a play)

Words with 息

休息xiūxi · to rest消息xiāoxi · news信息xìnxī · information利息lìxī · interest (on a loan)作息zuòxī · work and rest川流不息chuānliúbùxī · flowing in an endless stream (of people or traffic)

More words: Ideas & Concepts

冲击chōngjī · impact川流不息chuānliúbùxī · flowing in an endless stream (of people or traffic)处境chǔjìng · situation出路chūlù · way out挫折cuòzhé · setback代价dàijià · price档次dàngcì · grade当务之急dāngwùzhījí · top priority

FAQs

出息 (chūxi) means “promise” or “prospects (of a person)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chūxi: chū with a 1st tone, then xi with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 出息 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chuxi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 出息 from the suggestions. Typing chuxi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
出息 is an HSK 6 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.