IDENTITY
卧wòto lie down
HSK 5Top 1450
CORE MEANING
to lie down
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to lie downHSK5
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 臣minister radical (chén)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰臣卜
- the bowed servant (eye looking down)
- the resting body
USAGE
Common words
卧室wòshìbedroom
卧铺wòpùsleeper berth
卧底wòdǐundercover agent
Graded examples
他的卧室很干净。Tā de wòshì hěn gānjìng.HSK4
His bedroom is very clean.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 臣
LEARNING
Memory aid
A servant (臣) resting on the couch — lying down.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1450
- 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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