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Translingual

Han character

(radical 109 +5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月山口女心 (BURVP), four-corner 67047, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 805, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23240
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1221, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2483, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7720

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*miːn
*min
*min, *minʔ
*min, *mɯːn
*mrin
*mrin
*mrin
*mrin, *minʔ
*mrin
*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
*minʔ
*mrinʔ
*mrinʔ
*mrinʔ
*mɯn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *miːn) : semantic  (eye) + phonetic  (OC *min) – close your eyes and go to sleep.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/men/
Pan
Wuyun
/men/
Shao
Rongfen
/mɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mɛn/
Li
Rong
/men/
Wang
Li
/mien/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mián
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mián
Middle
Chinese
‹ men ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˤi[n]/
English shut the eyes; 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. 9129
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*miːn/

Definitions

  1. to sleep
  2. to hibernate

Compounds

  • 孤眠
  • 孤眠獨宿孤眠独宿
  • 安眠 (ānmián)
  • 安眠藥安眠药 (ānmiányào)
  • 成眠
  • 我醉欲眠
  • 抱虎而眠
  • 抵足而眠
  • 永眠 (yǒngmián)
  • 沉眠
  • 牛眠地
  • 眠川
  • 眠床 (miánchuáng)
  • 眠思夢想眠思梦想
  • 眠琴綠陰眠琴绿阴
  • 眠花宿柳
  • 眠花臥柳眠花卧柳
  • 眠花醉柳
  • 眠輿眠舆
  • 眠雲眠云
  • 眠霜臥雪眠霜卧雪
  • 眠鷗宿鷺眠鸥宿鹭
  • 睡眠 (shuìmián)
  • 睡眠療法睡眠疗法
  • 立盹行眠
  • 臥月眠霜卧月眠霜
  • 臥雪眠霜卧雪眠霜
  • 蠶眠蚕眠
  • 行眠立盹
  • 貓鼠同眠猫鼠同眠
  • 長眠长眠
  • 高枕而眠

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Derived terms


Korean

Hanja

(myeon) (hangeul )

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Vietnamese

Han character

(miên)

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