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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

惊醒

jīngxǐng

to rouse

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to rouse

02

to be woken by sth

03

to wake with a start

04

to sleep lightly

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 惊醒 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 惊醒 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我觉得我好像从恶梦中惊醒。wǒ jué de wǒ hǎo xiàng cóng è mèng zhōng jīng xǐng。

I feel as if I've woken up from a nightmare.

他很小心地溜出房间,以免惊醒她。tā hěn xiǎo xīn dì liū chū fáng jiān, yǐ miǎn jīng xǐng tā。

He crept out of the room very carefully to avoid waking her up.

这是快要到末班的路线巴士。也许是有点喝醉了,不知不觉打起盹来,却被下车按钮声惊醒。下一站就是我要下车的站。不行不行,坐过头的话就麻烦了。我一人下车后,车上已无其他乘客,巴士就这样开走了。即使没有乘客,也要继续跑,真是辛苦了。zhè shì kuài yào dào mò bān de lù xiàn bā shì。 yě xǔ shì yǒu diǎn hē zuì le, bù zhī bù jué dǎ qǐ dǔn lái, què bèi xià chē àn niǔ shēng jīng xǐng。 xià yī zhàn jiù shì wǒ yào xià chē de zhàn。 bù xíng bù xíng, zuò guò tóu de huà jiù má fán le。 wǒ yī rén xià chē hòu, chē shàng yǐ wú qí tā chéng kè, bā shì jiù zhè yàng kāi zǒu le。 jí shǐ méi yǒu chéng kè, yě yào jì xù pǎo, zhēn shì xīn kǔ le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 惊醒.

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

Directly before

  • 中惊醒1
  • 声惊醒1
  • 以免惊醒1

Directly after

  • 惊醒她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 惊醒

What does 惊醒 mean in Chinese?

惊醒 (jīngxǐng) means to rouse.

How do you pronounce 惊醒?

惊醒 is pronounced jīngxǐng.

Is 惊醒 an HSK word?

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

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