醒
xǐng HSK4

wake up, sober up

醒 xǐng
wake up verb
to regain consciousness after sleep; to be in an awake state

天快亮了，他却还没有睡醒。

tiān kuài liàng le, tā què hái méi​yǒu shuì xǐng.

It's almost dawn, but he still hasn't woken up.

become aware verb
to come to a realization or become clear-headed about a situation

听了他的话，我如梦初醒。

tīng le tā de huà, wǒ rú​mèng​chū​xǐng.

His words were a wake-up call for me.

sober up verb
to recover from the effects of alcohol or anesthesia

他喝了一杯浓茶，酒很快就醒了。

tā hē le yī bēi nóng​chá, jiǔ hěn kuài jiù xǐng le.

He drank a cup of strong tea and sobered up quickly.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)