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睡眠

sleep (noun)

睡眠
shuìmián4th tone
Pinyin
shuìmián
Strokes
23
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 睡眠

睡眠 is written with 23 strokes (睡: 13, 眠: 10). The animation replays automatically.

Usage

The formal noun: 睡眠质量, 睡眠试验. The everyday verb is 睡觉.

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邮件一开头就说,公司的一位高层特别重视睡眠。

The email opens by saying that a senior executive at the company takes sleep very seriously.

The Economist's Joke Memo: A Company Tries to Fix Its Staff's Sleep, and Everything Goes Wrong

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