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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

午睡

wǔshuì

to take a nap in the afternoon

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to take a nap in the afternoon

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 午睡 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 午睡 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

汤姆说他需要午睡。tāng mǔ shuō tā xū yào wǔ shuì。

Tom says he needs a nap.

午睡醒来愁未醒。wǔ shuì xǐng lái chóu wèi xǐng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 午睡.

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

Directly before

  • 需要午睡1

Directly after

  • 午睡醒来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 午睡

What does 午睡 mean in Chinese?

午睡 (wǔshuì) means to take a nap in the afternoon.

How do you pronounce 午睡?

午睡 is pronounced wǔshuì.

Is 午睡 an HSK word?

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

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