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睡眠

shuì mián

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

睡眠 (shuì mián) means "sleep; to sleep; (computing) to enter sleep mode". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 睡眠 means

1. sleep
2. to sleep
3. computingto enter sleep mode

The characters in 睡眠

• 睡shuìto sleep; to lie down
• 眠miánto sleep; to hibernate

Example sentences

• 我睡眠不足。
  I'm not getting enough sleep.
• 孩子需要很多睡眠。
  Children need a lot of sleep.
• 我最近一直睡眠不足。
  Wǒ zuì jìn yīzhí shuìmiánbùzú.
  I haven't been getting enough sleep lately.
• 孩子们需要大量的睡眠。
  Háizimen xūyào dàliàng de shuìmián.
  Children need a lot of sleep.
• 她在睡眠中安详地去世了。
  Tā zài shuìmián zhōng ānxiáng de qùshì le.
  She passed away peacefully in her sleep.
• 我们常常把死亡比作睡眠。
  Wǒmen chángcháng bǎ sǐwáng bǐzuò shuìmián.
  Death is often compared to sleep.

Words starting with 睡眠

• 睡眠虫shuì mián chóngtrypanosome
• 睡眠失调shuì mián shī tiáosleep disorder
• 睡眠呼吸暂停shuì mián hū xī zàn tíngsleep apnea

Words containing 睡眠

• 微睡眠wēi shuì miánmicrosleep

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