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睡觉

shuì jiào

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word Traditional 睡覺

睡觉 (shuì jiào) means "to go to bed". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 睡觉 means

1. to go to bed
2. to sleep

The characters in 睡觉

• 睡shuìto sleep; to lie down
• 觉juéto feel; to find that; thinking

Example sentences

• 我要睡觉
  Wǒ yào shuìjiào
  I want to sleep.
• 我想睡觉。
  I want to sleep.
• 闭眼睡觉。
  Close your eyes and go to sleep.
• 我睡觉了。
  I am going to sleep.
• 你睡觉吗？
  Are you sleeping?
• 鱼睡觉吗？
  Do fish sleep?

Where 睡觉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Modal Verbs and Core Predicates (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shuì jiào correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.