Tom dozed off during the meeting.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
打瞌睡
to doze off
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to doze off
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 打瞌睡 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 打瞌睡 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
Tom dozed off in French class.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 打瞌睡.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 打瞌睡.
Directly before
- 上打瞌睡1
- 课上打瞌睡1
- 期间打瞌睡1
- 一边打瞌睡1
- 忍不住打瞌睡1
Directly after
- 打瞌睡了1
- 打瞌睡吗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 打瞌睡
What does 打瞌睡 mean in Chinese?
打瞌睡 (dǎkēshuì) means to doze off.
How do you pronounce 打瞌睡?
打瞌睡 is pronounced dǎkēshuì.
Is 打瞌睡 an HSK word?
打瞌睡 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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