How to pronounce qi chuang (起床) in Chinese
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起床
qǐ chuáng
Characters & meanings
to rise
bed
Common mistake
Low + rising (3-2): dip on qǐ (aspirated palatal q), then climb through chuáng — retroflex ch plus the wide -uang glide, one of the longest finals in Mandarin.
Example sentence
我六点半起床。
Wǒ liù diǎn bàn qǐchuáng.
I get up at six thirty.
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