rest, day off, retire, sleep
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
今日はゆきさんのお休みの日です。
Kyou wa Yuki-san no oyasumi no hi desu.
Today is Yuki's day off.
数日後、日本は9月に珍しい連休に入るところでした。
Suujitsu go, Nihon wa kugatsu ni mezurashii renkyuu ni hairu tokoro deshita.
In a few days, Japan would enter one of its rare stretches of holidays in September.
休憩時間に、三人はお弁当を食べることにしました。
Kyuukei jikan ni, sannin wa obentou wo taberu koto ni shimashita.
During the break, the three of them sat down to eat the bento.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0