CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

熟睡

shúshuì

asleep

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

asleep

sleeping soundly

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 熟睡 actually appears in real sentences.

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

孩子在母亲的怀中熟睡。hái zi zài mǔ qīn de huái zhōng shú shuì。

The baby was sound asleep in her mother's arms.

仍有在孩子熟睡后仍难以入眠的父母，他们担心如何偿还按揭月供、付医药费或是存够钱让孩子上大学。réng yǒu zài hái zi shú shuì hòu réng nán yǐ rù mián de fù mǔ， tā men dān xīn rú hé cháng huán àn jiē yuè gōng、 fù yī yào fèi huò shì cún gòu qián ràng hái zi shàng dà xué。

There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for their child's college education.

他熟睡着。tā shú shuì zháo。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 熟睡.

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

Directly before

他熟睡1
孩子熟睡1
怀中熟睡1

Directly after

熟睡着1
熟睡后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 熟睡

What does 熟睡 mean in Chinese?

熟睡 (shúshuì) means asleep.

How do you pronounce 熟睡?

熟睡 is pronounced shúshuì.

Is 熟睡 an HSK word?

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

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