I may give up soon and just nap instead.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
打盹
to doze off
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to doze off
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 打盹 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 打盹 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
This moment will nap, you will have a dream; But this moment study,you will interpret a dream.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 打盹.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 打盹.
Directly before
- 去打盹1
- 此刻打盹1
- 想打盹1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 打盹
What does 打盹 mean in Chinese?
打盹 (dǎdǔn) means to doze off.
How do you pronounce 打盹?
打盹 is pronounced dǎdǔn.
Is 打盹 an HSK word?
打盹 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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