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"sleeping soundly" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
熟睡 shú shuì asleep / sleeping soundly syn
酣梦 酣夢 hān mèng sweet dream / sleeping soundly syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
安眠药 安眠藥 ān mián yào sleeping pill / CL:粒[li4] syn
睡袋 shuì dài sleeping bag
痛打 tòng dǎ to beat sb soundly syn
睡美人 shuì měi rén Sleeping Beauty
卧房 臥房 wò fáng bedroom / a sleeping compartment (on a train) syn
酣睡 hān shuì to sleep soundly / to fall into a deep sleep syn
落枕 lào zhěn to have a stiff neck after sleeping / (of the head) to touch the pillow
酣畅 酣暢 hān chàng unrestrained / cheerful lack of inhibition, esp. for drinking or sleeping / to drink with abandon syn
酣暢 酣畅 hān chàng unrestrained / cheerful lack of inhibition, esp. for drinking or sleeping / to drink with abandon
睡相 shuì xiàng sleeping posture
睡姿 shuì zī sleeping posture
凉席 涼席 liáng xí summer sleeping mat (e.g. of woven split bamboo) / CL:張|张[zhang1],領|领[ling3] syn
蒙胧 矇矓 méng lóng drowsy / half-asleep / half sleeping, half waking syn
卧车 臥車 wò chē (railroad) sleeping car syn
安枕 ān zhěn to sleep soundly / (fig.) to rest easy / to be free of worries
寐 mèi to sleep soundly syn
断袖之癖 斷袖之癖 duàn xiù zhī pǐ 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.
甜睡 tián shuì to sleep soundly
酣眠 hān mián to sleep soundly / to be fast asleep
轏 zhàn chariot for sleeping and conveyance
宰予昼寝 宰予晝寢 zǎi yǔ zhòu qǐn Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom) / refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures
昏睡病 hūn shuì bìng sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis / see also 非洲錐蟲病|非洲锥虫病[Fei1 zhou1 zhui1 chong2 bing4]
棕绷 棕繃 zōng bēng rectangular frame with a palm fiber mat woven across it (placed on a bed frame as the sleeping surface)
卧舱 臥艙 wò cāng sleeping cabin on a boat or train
卧龙 臥龍 wò lóng sleeping dragon / (fig.) a person of outstanding talent who lives in obscurity
迷魂香 mí hún xiāng a kind of sleeping gas or smoke used by thieves to incapacitate victims
非洲锥虫病 非洲錐蟲病 fēi zhōu zhuī chóng bìng sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis
秘密同伙 mì mì tòng huǒ secret partner / sleeping partner / silent partner
认床 認床 rèn chuáng to have difficulties sleeping in a bed other than one's own
辒辌 轀輬 wēn liáng (sleeping) carriage / hearse
床笫 chuáng zǐ bed and bamboo sleeping mat / (fig.) bed as a place for intimacy
隔壁老王 gé bì lǎo wáng Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)
瞌睡虫 瞌睡蟲 kē shuì chóng mythological insect that makes people doze off / (fig.) drowsiness / (coll.) person who loves sleeping / sleepaholic
接盘 接盤 jiē pán (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
靴子落地 xuē zi luò dì 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)
和衣 hé yī with one's clothes on (when sleeping)
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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