IDENTITY
睡shuìto sleep
HSK 1Top 660
CORE MEANING
to sleep
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to sleepHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 目eye radical (mù)
- strokes
- 13
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰目垂
- eye
- gives the sound shuì (historical)
USAGE
Common words
睡觉shuìjiàoto sleep
睡着shuìzháoto fall asleep
Graded examples
孩子已经睡着了。Háizi yǐjīng shuìzháo le.HSK2
The child has fallen asleep.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 眠
LEARNING
Memory aid
Eyes (目) drooping shut (垂) — sleeping.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #660
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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