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(shuì) - to sleep in Mandarin

shuì

Traditional: 睡

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HSK 3
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Translation

to sleep

Word origin

睡 (shuì) means 'to sleep'. It is a phono-semantic compound with 目 (eye) as the meaning radical, suggesting closing or drooping eyes, and 垂 (chuí) 'to droop' as the phonetic component.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
目 (eye radical) + 垂 (chuí, to droop, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 睡

睡

Examples

。

I want to go to sleep.

。

I did not sleep well last night.

。

The baby has fallen asleep.

沙shā。

The cat is sleeping on the sofa.

。

I slept for an hour at noon.

睡 (shuì) - to sleep.

Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 睡.

睡觉shuì jiàoto sleep, to go to bed睡着shuì zháoto fall asleep, to be asleep

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