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睡 (shuì): meaning and stroke order

睡 (shuì) means to sleep, to lie down.

睡

Simplified
睡
Traditional
睡 (same form)
Pinyin
shuì

Stroke order of 睡

睡

  • shuì to sleep; to lie down
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 睡

  1. shuì
    • to sleep
    • to lie down

Radical and structure

睡
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 13 strokes · 目 on the left, 垂 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 睡

睡 in our stories

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  • 现在,她上楼一点儿也不累,睡觉也睡得很好。

    xiànzài tā shàng lóu yìdiǎnr yě bú lèi shuìjiào yě shuì de hěn hǎo

    Now she isn't tired at all on the stairs, and she sleeps well too.

    From the story A little more every day HSK 2

  • 那两个星期,潘杰每天只睡五个小时,每写完一页,就存到三个地方。

    nà liǎng gè xīngqī Pān Jié měitiān zhǐ shuì wǔ gè xiǎoshí měi xiě wán yí yè jiù cún dào sān gè dìfang

    For those two weeks Pan Jie slept only five hours a night, and every time he finished a page he saved it in three places.

    From the story Mending the fold after the sheep is lost HSK 5

  • 一个叫盘古的巨人在这个“鸡蛋”里睡了整整一万八千年。

    yí gè jiào Pángǔ de jùrén zài zhè gè jīdàn lǐ shuì le zhěngzhěng yíwàn bāqiān nián

    A giant called Pangu slept inside this "egg" for eighteen thousand years.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 睡

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).