mèi
sleep
Originally depicts a person (人) sleeping on a bed (爿) inside a house (宀). Later written into a phonosemantic compound. 𪧇 represents the meaning and 未 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 寐
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to long for sth day and night | ||
to sleep soundly | ||
to dream | ||
to doze | ||
at any time |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mi[t]-s | mjijH | mèi | sleep |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.6750% of movies
2892nd most common character in movies
3825th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+5BD0 |
Shuowen | “寐，卧也。从省，未聲。” |
Sources
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