睡
shuì HSK1

sleep

睡 shuì
sleep verb
to be in a state of rest for the body and mind

我昨晚睡得很香。

wǒ zuó​wǎn shuì de hěn xiāng.

I slept very soundly last night.

lie down verb
to recline or rest in a horizontal position

医生叮嘱他术后只能侧着睡，不能平躺。

yī​shēng dīng​zhǔ tā shù hòu zhǐ néng cè zhe shuì, bù néng píng​tǎng.

The doctor instructed him to sleep only on his side after the surgery and not to lie flat on his back.

have sex verb
to have sexual intercourse with someone; colloquial use of 睡 shuì meaning 'to sleep with' in a sexual sense.

Frequency
Character
Written text
964th most common 172.7 per million
Movie subtitles
471st most common 311.7 per million appears in 68% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
239.4 per million appears in 51% of films
Written text
237.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+7761

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