qǐn
sleep
Phonosemantic compound. 𪧇 represents the meaning and 𠬶 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 寢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
bedroom | ||
to lie down | ||
to go to sleep | ||
lit. cannot rest or eat in peace (idiom) | ||
to skip one's sleep and meals |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tsʰ]imʔ | tshimX | qǐn | sleep |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8901% of movies
2970th most common character in movies
2806th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5BE2 |
Shuowen | “，病卧也。从省，省聲。” |
Sources
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