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寐

寐

Translingual

Han character

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

  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.
 寐

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (未) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
寐 *mids
魅 *mrɯds
鬽 *mrɯds
昧 *mɯːds
妹 *mɯːds
眛 *maːds, *mɯːds
沬 *maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds
未 *mɯds
味 *mɯds
鮇 *mɯds
菋 *mɯds

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 寐
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 彌二切
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		 mì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 寐
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 寐
Reading # 1/1
No. 12910
Phonetic
component		 未
Rime
group		 至
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 寐
Old
Chinese		 /*mids/

Definitions

寐

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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

寐

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

寐 • ‎(mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寐 (mị)

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