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HSK
to go to bed / to sleep
HSK 1
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  *睡* | 睡* | *睡
to sleep / to lie down
HSK 1
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  *熟* | 熟* | *熟
ripe; mature / thoroughly cooked; done / familiar; acquainted / experienced; skilled / (of sleep etc) deep; profound / also pr. [shou2]
HSK 2
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  *香* | 香* | *香
fragrant / sweet smelling / aromatic / savory or appetizing / (to eat) with relish / (of sleep) sound / perfume or spice / joss or incense stick / CL:
HSK 3
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  *歇* | 歇* | *歇
to rest / to take a break / to stop / to halt / (dialect) to sleep / a moment / a short while
HSK 5
sleep / to sleep / (computing) to enter sleep mode
HSK 5
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  *觉* | 觉* | *觉
a nap / a sleep / CL: 場|场
HSK 6
lit. to eat in the open air and sleep outdoors (idiom) / fig. to rough it
HSK 7-9
sleeping bag
HSK 7-9
steady; stable; sedate; calm; (of sleep) sound; (of a transition) smooth
HSK 7-9
to rouse / to be woken by sth / to wake with a start / to sleep lightly
HSK 7-9
unrestrained / cheerful lack of inhibition, esp. for drinking or sleeping / to drink with abandon
HSK 7-9
to sleep soundly / to fall into a deep sleep
HSK 7-9
sleeping pill / CL:
HSK 7-9
lack of sleep / sleep deficit
to talk in one's sleep / crazy talk
Sleeping Beauty
to sleep peacefully
to close one's eyes / to get to sleep
to sleep in separate rooms / distribution of social housing
to rest; to go to sleep / to rest in peace
lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践, in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / fig. to maintain one's resolve for revenge
to grind one's teeth (during sleep) / pointless arguing / (coll.) molar
talking in one's sleep / words spoken during sleep / fig. speech bearing no relation to reality / delusions
to sleep heavily (due to illness, fatigue etc)
talking in one's sleep / delirious ravings / nonsense / sheer fantasy
summer sleeping mat (e.g. of woven split bamboo) / CL: 張|张, 領|领
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  *寐* | 寐* | *寐
to sleep soundly
to have a rest / to stay for the night / to go to bed / to sleep
fragrant and sweet / sound (sleep)
sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)
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  *寝* | 寝* | *寝
(bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest / (bound form) bedroom / (bound form) imperial tomb / (literary) to stop; to cease
bedroom / a sleeping compartment (on a train)
to dream / to sleep
(idiom) to skip one's sleep and meals; to be completely wrapped up in one's work
to sleep naked
to have a stiff neck after sleeping / (of the head) to touch the pillow
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  *呓* | 呓* | *呓
to talk in one's sleep
to sleep peacefully (idiom) / (fig.) to rest easy / to be free of worries
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  *寎* | 寎* | *寎
nightmare / start in sleep
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  *衽* | 衽* | *衽
(literary) overlapping part of Chinese gown / lapel / sleeping mat
to doze / to take a nap / nodding off to sleep
to sleep outdoors / to spend the night in the open
asleep / sleeping soundly
to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard / to study diligently / to burn the candle at both ends
to sleep peacefully
sweet dream / sleeping soundly
to sleep soundly; to be fast asleep
to lie down to sleep with one's clothes on
to sleep soundly / (fig.) to rest easy / to be free of worries
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  *眵* | 眵* | *眵
(bound form) sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)
to be unable to sleep at night
lit. the eyelashes do not come together (idiom) / fig. to not sleep a wink
to make up for lost sleep
night demon (malign spirit believed to plague people during sleep)
sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)
sleeping cabin on a boat or train
to sleep soundly
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  *轏* | 轏* | *轏
chariot for sleeping and conveyance
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  *瞓* | 瞓* | *瞓
to sleep (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent:
to trade sex for favorable treatment (career advancement, higher grades, rent-free accommodation etc) / to sleep in the same bed as one's child
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  *讇* | 讇* | *讇
to talk in one's sleep / old variant of 諂|谄
to catch up on sleep
(sleeping) carriage / hearse
to wake up from a sleep
to sleep (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 睡覺|睡觉
a common bed (to sleep many)
to sleep well; to get restful sleep / (medicine) to be anesthetized
without stopping to sleep or have a rest (idiom)
Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)
to have difficulties sleeping in a bed other than one's own
bed and bamboo sleeping mat / (fig.) bed as a place for intimacy
a kind of sleeping gas or smoke used by thieves to incapacitate victims
grumpiness resulting from poor sleep; irritability in the morning
to sleep in
(lit.) to lie stiff like a corpse / (coll.) to sleep
sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis / see also 非洲錐蟲病|非洲锥虫病
(of an entrepreneur) to buy up a struggling business / (finance) to snap up shares sold off by others / (neologism) (slang) to take as a girlfriend a woman who was dumped by her ex for sleeping around
sleep apnea
(dialect) to sleep
to fall asleep; to get to sleep
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  *眠* | 眠* | *眠
to sleep / to hibernate
lit. I'm drunk and would like to sleep (idiom) / (used to indicate one's sincere and straightforward nature)
green grass like cushion (idiom); green meadow so inviting to sleep on
mythological insect that makes people doze off / (fig.) drowsiness / (coll.) person who loves sleeping / sleepaholic
to make a mess / to mess with / to be wild / to sleep around / to jump into bed
lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
a simple inn with only chicken feathers to sleep on
sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis
to close one's eyes (i.e. sleep)
to promote sleep
to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep / (fig.) the ordinary daily routine
to get enough sleep; to have a good night's sleep
beauty sleep (before midnight)
to sober up / to sleep off the effect of drink
to be promiscuous / to sleep around
(dialect) sleep (dried mucus in the corner of the eye)
sleep disorder
lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
(jocular) to sleep on the couch; to sleep in the living room

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