dǎ kē shuì

打瞌睡 (dǎ kē shuì) is a Chinese word meaning “to doze off”.

Meanings

  1. 1to doze off

Characters in 打瞌睡

打dá · (loanword) dozen瞌kē · used in 瞌睡[ke1 shui4]睡shuì · to sleep

Related words

打(loanword) dozen打a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate")打电话to make a telephone call睡to sleep打算to plan打开to open睡觉to go to bed打扰to disturb打赌to bet打败to defeat打架to fight打击to hit

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