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睡 — to sleep; to lie down

Pinyin
shuì
Strokes
13
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 睡: 13 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

睡 — 13 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 睡 in the HSK syllabus: 6

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 睡shuìto sleep; to lie downHSK 1
  2. 睡觉shuìjiàoto go to bed; to sleepHSK 1
  3. 睡眠shuìmiánsleep; to sleep; to enter sleep modeHSK 5
  4. 沉睡chénshuìto be fast asleepHSK 7–9
  5. 酣睡hānshuìto sleep soundly; to fall into a deep sleepHSK 7–9
  6. 睡袋shuìdàisleeping bagHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.