睡觉
shuì jiào
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 睡覺
To go to bed, or to sleep: the everyday verb that can stand on its own. It is a verb with its own object, 睡 'sleep' plus 觉 'a sleep', so words can come between the two: 睡了一个好觉 'had a good night's sleep'. 觉 is read jiào here; in 觉得 'to feel' the same character is jué.
Đi ngủ, ngủ: động từ thường ngày, đứng một mình được. Đây là động từ + tân ngữ: 睡 (ngủ) + 觉 (giấc ngủ), nên có thể chen từ vào giữa: 睡了一个好觉 (ngủ một giấc ngon). Chữ 觉 ở đây đọc là jiào; trong 觉得 (cảm thấy), cùng chữ ấy lại đọc là jué.
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 “睡觉” mean?
To go to bed, or to sleep: the everyday verb that can stand on its own. It is a verb with its own object, 睡 'sleep' plus 觉 'a sleep', so words can come between the two: 睡了一个好觉 'had a good night's sleep'. 觉 is read jiào here; in 觉得 'to feel' the same character is jué. Literally: sleep a sleep
Is “睡觉” formal or informal?
睡觉 is generally neutral.