(shuì) - to sleep in Mandarin

shuì

Traditional: 睡

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Translation

to sleep

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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

睡

Examples

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I want to go to sleep.

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I did not sleep well last night.

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The baby has fallen asleep.

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The cat is sleeping on the sofa.

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I slept for an hour at noon.

睡 (shuì) - to sleep.

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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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This word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 2: 睡, 愿意, 麻烦 and 7 more words.