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起床

qǐ chuáng

HSK 1 · word 285 of 3,000

Meaning

• to get out of bed; to get up

Example sentence

Characters in 起床

• 起 qǐ to rise
• 床 chuáng bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on)

起 to rise plus 床 bed. Getting up is rising from the bed, and the object is explicit in a way English leaves out.

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