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失眠

shī mián

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

失眠 (shī mián) means "to suffer from insomnia". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 失眠 means

1. to suffer from insomnia

The characters in 失眠

• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 眠miánto sleep; to hibernate

Example sentences

• 我有失眠症。
  I can't sleep at night.
• 小李经常失眠，因为他的邻居老是大声地吵架。
  Xiǎo Lǐ jīngcháng shīmián, yīnwèi tā de línjū lǎoshi dàshēng de chǎojià.
  Xiaoli often loses sleep because his neighbours are always arguing loudly.

Where 失眠 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health, Medical & Fatigue (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shī mián correctly.
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