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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

就寝

jiùqǐn

to go to sleep

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to go to sleep

02

to go to bed (literary)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 就寝 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 就寝 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我晚上很晚就寝。wǒ wǎn shàng hěn wǎn jiù qǐn。

I go to bed late at night.

就寝之前不要喝啤酒。jiù qǐn zhī qián bú yào hē pí jiǔ。

Do not drink beer before going to bed.

长久以来我都很早就寝。cháng jiǔ yǐ lái wǒ dōu hěn zǎo jiù qǐn。

For a long time, I've had a habit of going to bed early.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 就寝.

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

Directly before

  • 很早就寝1
  • 晚就寝1
  • 十点钟就寝1
  • 我们就寝1
  • 是就寝1

Directly after

  • 就寝的2
  • 就寝之前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 就寝

What does 就寝 mean in Chinese?

就寝 (jiùqǐn) means to go to sleep.

How do you pronounce 就寝?

就寝 is pronounced jiùqǐn.

Is 就寝 an HSK word?

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

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