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There are 7 total results for your 不休 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

不休

see styles
bù xiū
    bu4 xiu1
pu hsiu
 fukyuu / fukyu
    ふきゅう
endlessly; ceaselessly
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (See 不眠不休) no rest; working nonstop

不休息

see styles
bù xiū xí
    bu4 xiu1 xi2
pu hsiu hsi
 fukusoku
to apply oneself unstintingly

不死不休

see styles
bù sǐ bù xiū
    bu4 si3 bu4 xiu1
pu ssu pu hsiu
to fight to one's last gasp

不眠不休

see styles
bù mián bù xiū
    bu4 mian2 bu4 xiu1
pu mien pu hsiu
 fuminfukyuu / fuminfukyu
    ふみんふきゅう
without stopping to sleep or have a rest (idiom)
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (yoji) no sleep or rest; working day and night

刺刺不休

see styles
cì cì bù xiū
    ci4 ci4 bu4 xiu1
tz`u tz`u pu hsiu
    tzu tzu pu hsiu
to talk incessantly; to chatter on and on

喋喋不休

see styles
dié dié bù xiū
    die2 die2 bu4 xiu1
tieh tieh pu hsiu
to chatter or jabber on and on

一不做,二不休

see styles
yī bù zuò , èr bù xiū
    yi1 bu4 zuo4 , er4 bu4 xiu1
i pu tso , erh pu hsiu
lit. either don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); fig. if you do it at all, you may as well go the whole hog; in for a penny, in for a pound
This page contains 7 results for "不休" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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