起床 (qǐchuáng) means Gets out of bed (get up). Below are 19 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
我每天六点 起床 。
Wǒ měi tiān liù diǎn qǐchuáng.
I get up at six every day.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 起床
快 起床 ，要上班了！
Kuài qǐchuáng, yào shàngbān le!
Get up quickly, it's time for work!
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 起床
我早上七点 起床 。
Wǒ zǎoshang qī diǎn qǐchuáng.
I get up at seven in the morning.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 早上
他平常六点 起床 。
Tā píngcháng liù diǎn qǐchuáng.
He usually gets up at six.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 平常
起床 后先伸伸腰。
Qǐchuáng hòu xiān shēnshen yāo.
Stretch your back first after getting up.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 伸
冬天我不喜欢 起床 。
Dōngtiān wǒ bù xǐhuan qǐchuáng.
In winter I hate getting out of bed.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 冬
天亮了，该 起床 了。
Tiān liàng le, gāi qǐchuáng le.
It is light out; time to get up.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 亮
他往往六点就 起床 了。
Tā wǎngwǎng liù diǎn jiù qǐ chuáng le.
He is often up by six.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 往往
他依旧每天六点 起床 。
Tā yījiù měi tiān liù diǎn qǐchuáng.
He still gets up at six every day.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 依旧
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From the graded readers
起床 以后，我喝一杯水。
qǐchuáng yǐhòu, wǒ hē / hè yī bēi shuǐ.
After getting up, I drink a glass of water.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Day
早上鸟叫的时候，我就 起床 了。
zǎoshang niǎo jiào de / dì shíhou, wǒ jiù qǐchuáng le / liǎo / liào.
When the birds start in the morning, I get up.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room
第二天早上四点，我们就 起床 了。
dì'èr tiān zǎoshang sì diǎn, wǒmen jiù qǐchuáng le / liǎo / liào.
On the second morning we got up at four.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Trip With Friends
我七点就 起床 了，跑了半个小时步。
wǒ qī diǎn jiù qǐchuáng le / liǎo / liào, pǎo le / liǎo / liào bànge xiǎoshí bù.
I got up at seven and ran for half an hour.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
有一天早上，我 起床 的时候忽然觉得头很晕。
yǒu yī tiān zǎoshang, wǒ qǐchuáng de / dì shíhou hūrán juéde tóu hěn yūn / yùn.
One morning I got up and suddenly felt very dizzy.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
From the grammar library
我每天早上七点 起床 。
Wǒ měitiān zǎoshang qī diǎn qǐchuáng.
I get up at seven every morning.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Where time words go
Questions about 起床
How is 起床 used in a sentence?
This page shows 19 sentences using 起床 (qǐchuáng, "Gets out of bed (get up)"), 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 起床 an HSK word?
Yes — 起床 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 起床?
The dictionary page for 起床 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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