起床
HSK 1 (exam 2025)HSK 1 (2021)Old HSK 2
起床 (qǐchuáng) · to get out of bed
起床 (qǐchuáng) means “to get out of bed”. It is written with 2 characters: 起 (to get up) + 床 (bed). It is an HSK 1 word in the current exam syllabus (2025).
How 起床 is built
The characters
起 qǐ · to get up
What 起 is made of
- 走zǒu — to walk
- 土tǔ — earth
- 十 — ten
- 一 — horizontal stroke
- 止zhǐ — to stop
- 上shàng — up
- 丨 — vertical stroke
- 土tǔ — earth
- 己jǐ — self
- 乚 — hook stroke
Origin hint: 走 gives the meaning, 己 gives the sound. (from the Make Me a Hanzi dataset; treat as a memory aid where history is uncertain)
床 chuáng · bed
What 床 is made of
- 广guǎng — broad
- 丶 — dot
- 厂chǎng — cliff
- 木mù — tree
- 十 — ten
- 一 — horizontal stroke
- 丨 — vertical stroke
- 八bā — eight
- 十 — ten
Origin hint: A house 广 made out of wood 木; 广 also provides the pronunciation (from the Make Me a Hanzi dataset; treat as a memory aid where history is uncertain)
Example sentences
我六点起床。Wǒ liù diǎn qǐchuáng.I get up at six.
你起床了吗？Nǐ qǐchuáng le ma?Are you up yet?
Questions about 起床
What does 起床 mean?
起床 (qǐchuáng) means “to get out of bed”.
How do you pronounce 起床?
起床 is pronounced qǐchuáng.
Which HSK level is 起床?
起床 is in HSK 1 (exam 2025) and HSK 1 (2021) and Old HSK 2.
Related words
- 对不起duìbuqǐsorry
- 起来qǐlaito get up
- 一起yīqǐtogether
- 起飞qǐfēito take off (of a plane)
- 想起xiǎngqǐto remember
- 看起来kàn qǐlaito look like
- 看不起kànbuqǐto look down on
- 了不起liǎobuqǐamazing
- 引起yǐnqǐto cause
- 起草qǐcǎoto draft
Learn 起床 with its group
It is part of HSK 1 (2021) · Group 5: a short group with quick checks and spaced repeats.