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睡觉 (shuì jiào): meaning and stroke order

睡觉 (shuì jiào) means to go to bed, to sleep.

睡觉

Simplified
睡觉
Traditional
睡覺
Pinyin
shuì jiào

Stroke order of 睡觉

睡

  • shuì to sleep; to lie down
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

觉

  • jiào a nap; a sleep
  • jué to feel; to find that
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 覺

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 睡觉

  1. shuì jiào Traditional 睡覺
    • to go to bed
    • to sleep

Radicals of the characters

睡
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 13 strokes · 目 on the left, 垂 on the right
觉
Radical 见 (Kangxi radical 147) in its simplified form · 9 strokes

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.

睡觉 in our stories

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  • 她回家睡觉。

    tā huí jiā shuìjiào

    She goes home to sleep.

    From the story Xiaoyue's day HSK 1

  • 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

  • 他一遍又一遍地跟她讲自己的女儿：女儿小时候怕打雷，一打雷就钻进他的被子里，他就唱一首自己编的歌哄她睡觉。

    tā yí biàn yòu yí biàn de gēn tā jiǎng zìjǐ de nǚ'ér nǚ'ér xiǎoshíhou pà dǎléi yì dǎléi jiù zuān jìn tā de bèizi lǐ tā jiù chàng yì shǒu zìjǐ biān de gē hǒng tā shuìjiào

    Again and again he told her about his daughter: as a little girl she was afraid of thunder, and whenever it thundered she crawled under his quilt, and he would sing a song he had made up to lull her to sleep.

    From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 睡觉

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).