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Translingual

Han character

(radical 40 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十女一木 (JVMD), four-corner 30295, composition)

  1. sleep
  2. be asleep

References

  • KangXi: page 289, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7236
  • Dae Jaweon: page 572, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 944, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+5BD0

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mids
*mrɯds
*mrɯds
*mɯːds
*mɯːds
*maːds, *mɯːds
*maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds
*mɯds
*mɯds
*mɯds
*mɯds

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/miɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/miH/
Shao
Rongfen
/mjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miH/
Li
Rong
/miH/
Wang
Li
/miH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/miH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mèi
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjijH ›
Old
Chinese
/*mi[t]-s/
English sleep

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12910
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mids/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 夢寐以求梦寐以求
  • 寢不能寐寝不能寐
  • 寤寐
  • 寤寐以求
  • 晨興夜寐晨兴夜寐
  • 謎寐谜寐
  • 輾轉不寐辗转不寐
  • 魘寐魇寐

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(mae) (hangeul , revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(mị)

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