起床
qǐ chuáng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To get up: to get out of bed after sleeping. The time goes before it: 六点起床 'get up at six'. 起床了！ is the everyday call 'time to get up!'. Waking up without leaving the bed is a different verb, 醒 (xǐng).
Dậy, ngủ dậy: ra khỏi giường sau khi ngủ. Giờ giấc đặt trước: 六点起床 (sáu giờ dậy). 起床了！ là câu gọi quen thuộc “dậy đi!”. Còn tỉnh giấc mà chưa ra khỏi giường là một động từ khác, 醒 (xǐng).
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “起床” mean?
To get up: to get out of bed after sleeping. The time goes before it: 六点起床 'get up at six'. 起床了！ is the everyday call 'time to get up!'. Waking up without leaving the bed is a different verb, 醒 (xǐng). Literally: rise from bed
Is “起床” formal or informal?
起床 is generally neutral.