醒
xǐng HSK4

wake up, sober up

醒 xǐng
to wake up verb
to wake up or be awake; to stop sleeping

别担心，他不会醒的。

bié dān xīn, tā bù​huì xǐng de.

Don't worry, he won't wake up.

她突然醒了过来。

tā tū​rán xǐng le guò lai.

She suddenly woke up.

to realize verbadjective
to wake up to reality; to understand something clearly after being confused or unaware
to sober up verb
to recover consciousness after being drunk, drugged, or in a coma

我刚刚从昏迷中醒过来。

wǒ gāng​gāng cóng hūn​mí zhōng xǐng guò lai.

I just woke up from a coma.

striking
(bound form) clear to the eye; striking; noticeable

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,075th most common 139.0 per million
Movie subtitles
595th most common 238.2 per million appears in 64% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
162.7 per million appears in 34% of films
Written text
58.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+9192

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)