失眠

失眠 shīmián in a sentence

Insomnia (unable to sleep)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 2 sentences

失眠 (shīmián) means Insomnia (unable to sleep). Below are 2 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

他最近常常 失眠 。

Tā zuìjìn chángcháng shīmián.

He often cannot sleep lately.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 失眠

喝咖啡容易让人 失眠 。

Hē kāfēi róngyì ràng rén shīmián.

Drinking coffee easily causes sleeplessness.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 失眠

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How is 失眠 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 失眠 (shīmián, "Insomnia (unable to sleep)"), 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 失眠 an HSK word?

Yes — 失眠 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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