睡觉

睡覺

shuìjiào

verb HSK 1 #780

Meanings

觉 is pronounced jiào here (meaning 'sleep'), not jué (meaning 'to feel'). The two characters together form a verb-object compound.

该睡觉了。

Gāi shuìjiào le.

It's time to go to bed.

你几点睡觉？

Nǐ jǐ diǎn shuìjiào?

What time do you go to bed?

我昨天睡觉很晚。

Wǒ zuótiān shuìjiào hěn wǎn.

I went to bed very late yesterday.

grammar

睡觉 is a verb-object compound, so you can't directly add duration after it. Say 我睡了八个小时 (I slept for 8 hours), not 我睡觉了八个小时.

睡 shuì

觉 jué