HSK 2 · Common Verbs

起床 qǐchuáng “to get up” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 起床 means

  1. to get up
  2. to get out of bed

How to say 起床

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale起qǐ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale床chuáng2nd tone, rising

起床 in a sentence

  1. 我一般六点起床。

    Wǒ yìbān liù diǎn qǐchuáng.

    I usually get up at six.

    Sentence #8780276 from Tatoeba

  2. 该起床了。

    Gāi qǐchuáng le.

    Time to get up.

    Sentence #760906 from Tatoeba

  3. 早上八点叫我起床吧。

    Zǎoshang bā diǎn jiào wǒ qǐchuáng ba.

    Wake me up at eight in the morning.

    Sentence #5953326 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 起床 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 起 (qǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
起qǐto rise
  • 走walk · zǒuMeaning part
  • 己self · jǐSound part

走 hints at the meaning (walk); 己 (jǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with qǐ.

The character 床 (chuáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
床chuángbed; couch 张)
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 木tree · mù

Memory aidPicture wood 木 under a shelter 广: a bed.

How to write 起床

起 10 strokes · 床 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

起床 (qǐchuáng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 起床 (qǐchuáng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 起床

Words with 起

对不起duìbuqǐ · sorry一起yìqǐ · together起qǐ · to rise起飞qǐfēi · take off in an aeroplane起来qǐlai · beginning or continuing an action引起yǐnqǐ · to give rise to看不起kànbuqǐ · to look down upon了不起liǎobuqǐ · amazing起初qǐchū · at first起草qǐcǎo · to draft

Words with 床

床chuáng · bed临床línchuáng · clinical床单chuángdān · bed sheet

More words: Common Verbs

懂dǒng · to understand过guò · to pass卖mài · to sell跑步pǎobù · to run上班shàngbān · to go to work说话shuōhuà · to speak踢足球tīzúqiú · to play football (football)休息xiūxi · to rest

FAQs

起床 (qǐchuáng) means “to get up” or “to get out of bed”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it qǐchuáng: qǐ with a 3rd tone, then chuáng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 起床 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qichuang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 起床 from the suggestions. Typing qichuang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
起床 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.