息息相关

• Pinyin: xī xī xiāng guān
• Desglose de hanzi: 息 = 自 + 心 (self/nose + heart — breath, rest); 相 = 木 + 目 (tree + eye — to observe mutually, mutual); 关 = 关 (gate/barrier — to concern, relate to)

Significado

Estar íntimamente relacionado; estar inseparablemente ligado.

A four-character idiom (成语). 息息 means breath by breath — with every breath — conveying constant, vital connection. Used to express that things are so intertwined that they affect each other with every moment. Common in political speeches, academic writing, and journalism.

Ejemplos

1. 生态环境的保护与人类社会的可持续发展息息相关，二者不可偏废。
2. 个人的职业发展与企业的整体战略方向息息相关，员工应充分理解公司的长远规划。
3. 粮食安全问题与国家政治稳定息息相关，历来是各国政府高度重视的战略议题。

Guía de uso

Contexto: politics, environment, social affairs, academia, journalism

Tono: earnest

Correcto

• 提高全民科学素质与增强自主创新能力息息相关，二者相互促进，缺一不可。(Improving the public's scientific literacy is closely linked to strengthening independent innovation capacity; the two reinforce each other and are both essential.)
• 公民环境权利保障与司法救济机制息息相关，没有有效诉讼途径，权利就难以落实。(The protection of citizens' environmental rights is closely linked to judicial remedies; without effective legal channels, those rights are hard to realize.)

Incorrecto

• 息息相关 for things that are merely related or connected in a general sense — use 有关 or 相关; 息息相关 specifically conveys an intimate, vital, and inseparable interdependence, like breath itself; it implies that one cannot exist or function properly without the other

Origen e historia

息 (breath, stop, rest) + 息 (reduplication for continuity) + 相 (mutual, each other) + 关 (relate to, concern) — every breath mutually linked; breathing together in constant connection

Contexto cultural

Generación: All ages

Contexto social: Universal