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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

小睡

xiǎoshuì

to nap

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to nap

02

to doze

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 小睡 actually appears in real sentences.

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

我小睡了一会儿。wǒ xiǎo shuì le yī huì er。

I took a nap.

我小睡后就感到生龙活虎。wǒ xiǎo shuì hòu jiù gǎn dào shēng lóng huó hǔ。

A little nap and, just like that, I'm as fresh as a daisy.

我小睡后就感到精力充沛。wǒ xiǎo shuì hòu jiù gǎn dào jīng lì chōng pèi。

A little nap and, just like that, I'm as fresh as a daisy.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 小睡.

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

Directly before

  • 我小睡3

Directly after

  • 小睡后2
  • 小睡了1
  • 小睡一会儿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 小睡

What does 小睡 mean in Chinese?

小睡 (xiǎoshuì) means to nap.

How do you pronounce 小睡?

小睡 is pronounced xiǎoshuì.

Is 小睡 an HSK word?

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

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