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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

入眠

rùmián

to fall asleep

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to fall asleep

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 入眠 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 入眠 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

溪流潺潺,催我入眠。xī liú chán chán, cuī wǒ rù mián。

The murmur of the brook lulls me to sleep.

蟋蟀的叫声与蛙鸣催我入眠。xī shuài de jiào shēng yǔ wā míng cuī wǒ rù mián。

The sound of crickets chirping and frogs croaking lulls me to sleep.

仍有在孩子熟睡后仍难以入眠的父母,他们担心如何偿还按揭月供、付医药费或是存够钱让孩子上大学。réng yǒu zài hái zi shú shuì hòu réng nán yǐ rù mián de fù mǔ, tā men dān xīn rú hé cháng huán àn jiē yuè gōng、 fù yī yào fèi huò shì cún gòu qián ràng hái zi shàng dà xué。

There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for their child's college education.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 入眠.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 入眠.

Directly before

  • 难以入眠2
  • 我入眠2

Directly after

  • 入眠的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 入眠

What does 入眠 mean in Chinese?

入眠 (rùmián) means to fall asleep.

How do you pronounce 入眠?

入眠 is pronounced rùmián.

Is 入眠 an HSK word?

入眠 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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