HSK 3.0 Level 3 · School

休假 xiūjià “to take leave” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 休假 means

  1. to take leave
  2. to go on holiday
  3. to have a holiday

How to say 休假

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale休xiū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale假jià4th tone, falling

休假 in a sentence

  1. 我明天下午休假。

    Wǒ míngtiān xiàwǔ xiūjià.

    I’m taking tomorrow afternoon off.

    Sentence #848582 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我决定今年不休假。

    Wǒ juédìng jīnnián bù xiūjià.

    I’ve decided not to take any leave this year.

    Sentence #12424595 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 今天我休假，要不要一起玩游戏？

    Jīntiān wǒ xiūjià, yào bu yào yìqǐ wán yóuxì?

    I’ve got the day off today. Do you want to play a game together?

    Sentence #8746509 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 休假 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 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.

The character 假 (jià) with each of its parts in a different colour
假jiàholiday
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 叚false

Memory aidPerson 亻 with 叚 (jiǎ) for the sound: false, fake. Read jià, it means a holiday.

How to write 休假

休 6 strokes · 假 11 strokes

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

Words related to 休假

Words with 休

休息xiūxi · to rest休闲xiūxián · leisure退休tuìxiū · to retire (from the workforce)

Words with 假

请假qǐngjià · to ask for time off假期jiàqī · holiday放假fàngjià · to have a holiday假jiǎ · false寒假hánjià · winter holidays放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays假装jiǎzhuāng · to feign假设jiǎshè · to suppose假如jiǎrú · if虚假xūjiǎ · false

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FAQs

休假 (xiūjià) means “to take leave” or “to go on holiday”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it xiūjià: xiū with a 1st tone, then jià with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 休假 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiujia with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 休假 from the suggestions. Typing xiujia into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
休假 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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.