睡觉

睡觉 shuìjiào in a sentence

Sleep (go to bed)

Full dictionary entry HSK 1 7 sentences

睡觉 (shuìjiào) means Sleep (go to bed). Below are 7 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

我十一点 睡觉

Wǒ shíyī diǎn shuìjiào.

I go to bed at eleven o'clock.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 睡觉

我中午不 睡觉

Wǒ zhōngwǔ bú shuìjiào.

I don't nap at noon.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 中午

妈妈让我早点儿 睡觉

Māma ràng wǒ zǎo diǎnr shuìjiào.

Mum told me to go to bed a bit earlier.

Dictionary example · HSK 2 ·

睡觉 以前我喜欢看书。

Shuìjiào yǐqián wǒ xǐhuan kàn shū.

I like to read before going to sleep.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 以前

From the graded readers

十一点,我 睡觉 。明天见!

shíyī diǎn, wǒ shuìjiào. míngtiān jiàn!

At eleven I go to sleep. See you tomorrow!

Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Day

小白很喜欢 睡觉 ,也很喜欢吃东西。

xiǎo bái hěn xǐhuan shuìjiào, yě hěn xǐhuan chī dōngxī.

Xiaobai loves sleeping, and loves eating too.

Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Family

小白喜欢 睡觉 ,一天睡很多个小时。

xiǎo bái xǐhuan shuìjiào, yī tiān shuì hěnduō gè xiǎoshí.

Xiaobai likes sleeping — he sleeps a lot of hours a day.

Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Cat

Questions about 睡觉

How is 睡觉 used in a sentence?

This page shows 7 sentences using 睡觉 (shuìjiào, "Sleep (go to bed)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 睡觉 an HSK word?

Yes — 睡觉 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 睡觉?

The dictionary page for 睡觉 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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