HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Everyday Verbs

睡 shuì “to sleep” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 睡 means

  1. to sleep
  2. to lie down

How to say 睡

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale睡shuì4th tone, falling

睡 in a sentence

  1. 你睡得好吗？

    Nǐ shuì de hǎo ma?

    Did you sleep well?

    Sentence #475849 from Tatoeba

  2. 我今天累，所以我睡得早。

    Wǒ jīntiān lèi, suǒyǐ wǒ shuì de zǎo.

    I was tired today, so I went to bed early.

    Sentence #5655339 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. “睡了吗？”“还没。”

    “Shuì le ma?” “Hái méi.”

    “Are you asleep yet?” “Not yet.”

    Sentence #13936908 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 睡 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 睡 (shuì) with each of its parts in a different colour
睡shuìto sleep
  • 目eye · mùMeaning part
  • 垂to hang · chuíSound part

目 hints at the meaning (eye); 垂 (chuí) hints at the sound. Compare it with shuì.

Memory aidAn eye 目 with its lid hanging down 垂: to sleep.

How to write 睡

睡 13 strokes

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

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

Words related to 睡

Words with 睡

睡觉shuìjiào · to sleep

More words: Everyday Verbs

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FAQs

睡 (shuì) means “to sleep” or “to lie down”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it shuì: shuì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 睡 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 睡 from the suggestions. Typing shui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
睡 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older 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.