打瞌睡

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	to doze; to nap; to get drowsy
trad. (打瞌睡)		打	瞌睡
simp. #(打瞌睡)		打	瞌睡

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎkēshuì

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄎㄜ ㄕㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² hap¹ seoi⁶ / daa² hap⁶ seoi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎkēshuì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄎㄜ ㄕㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎkeshuèi
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-kʻo¹-shui⁴
    • Yale: dǎ-kē-shwèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daakeshuey
    • Palladius: дакэшуй (dakɛšuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰɤ⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² hap¹ seoi⁶ / daa² hap⁶ seoi⁶
    • Yale: dá hāp seuih / dá hahp seuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² hap⁷ soey⁶ / daa² hap⁹ soey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² heb¹ sêu⁶ / da² heb⁶ sêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ hɐp̚⁵ sɵy̯²²/, /taː³⁵ hɐp̚² sɵy̯²²/

Verb

打瞌睡

1. to doze off; to nod off

   你看那打瞌睡的男孩，可真逗啊。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Nǐ kàn nà dǎkēshuì de nánhái, kě zhēn dòu a. [Pinyin]

   See that boy, he's dozed off, ah so hilarious.

Synonyms

• 打盹 (dǎdǔn)
• (Min Nan) 厾眠, 厾龜／厾龟, 厾交睡, 雞眠／鸡眠, 雞仔眠／鸡仔眠