回笼觉

回籠覺
huílóngjiào
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 second-round sleep (after waking and going back to bed)
  2. 2 morning back-to-bed nap

Examples

Nàozhōng xiǎng le wǒ yòu shuì le ge huílóngjiào.
The alarm went off and I went right back to sleep.
Zhōumò de huílóngjiào shì zuì xiāng de.
Going back to bed on a weekend morning is the sweetest sleep there is.

Tips

memory
originally describes putting steamed buns back in the bamboo steamer () to reheat — 回笼觉 is your sleep going 'back into the steamer' for round two after you've already woken up. A perfect noun for that hit-snooze-and-collapse moment.

Stroke Order

huí
lóng
jué