睡
shuì
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To sleep or be asleep; the bare verb, which usually has 了 or a length of time after it. 睡了八个小时 is 'slept for eight hours', 睡得很好 'slept well'. Where English says just 'sleep' or 'go to bed', with nothing after it, Chinese mostly uses 睡觉.
Ngủ, đang ngủ; động từ trơn, thường có 了 hay một khoảng thời gian theo sau. 睡了八个小时 là “ngủ tám tiếng”, 睡得很好 là “ngủ ngon”. Khi chỉ nói “ngủ”, “đi ngủ” trơn, không có gì theo sau, tiếng Trung thường dùng 睡觉.
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 ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 睡 = thụy · 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 “睡” mean?
To sleep or be asleep; the bare verb, which usually has 了 or a length of time after it. 睡了八个小时 is 'slept for eight hours', 睡得很好 'slept well'. Where English says just 'sleep' or 'go to bed', with nothing after it, Chinese mostly uses 睡觉.
Is “睡” formal or informal?
睡 is generally neutral.