I keep coming across words like 睡觉 which both mean to sleep and together mean to sleep. Are the dictionaries that I'm using adding the definition of the combined words to the single words possibly or is there another reason?
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2see e.g. previous question https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/31011/why-use-combined-characters-that-have-the-same-meaning/31012#31012 – user6065 Sep 02 '18 at 08:07
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睡觉 sleep, lie down to sleep 觉 jiào sleep is a bound morpheme – user6065 Sep 02 '18 at 08:18
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I have written an answer to that question, including a specific discussion about 睡觉. – eaglebrain Sep 03 '18 at 15:43