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起床

qǐ chuáng

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

起床 (qǐ chuáng) means "to get out of bed". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 起床 means

1. to get out of bed; to get up

The characters in 起床

• 起qǐto rise; to raise; to get up
• 床chuángbed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on); bed…

Example sentences

• 起床!
  Get out of bed!
• 该起床了。
  Time to get up.
• 我起床早。
  I got up early.
• 该起床了！
  It's time to get up!
• 你几点起床？
  What time do you get up?
• 她晚了起床。
  She got up late.

Words starting with 起床

• 起床气qǐ chuáng qìgrumpiness resulting from poor sleep; irritability in the morning
• 起床号qǐ chuáng hàoreveille

Where 起床 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Daily Actions (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qǐ chuáng correctly.
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