mèng
dream
Simplified form of 夢. Depicts a person with an emphasized eye (𦰋) sleeping on a bed (爿), conveying the meaning "dream". 𦰋 also represents the sound. The 爿 (bed) component was later reanalyzed as meaning component 夕 (evening).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernStatistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 54.9896% of movies
600th most common character in movies
865th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+68A6 |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.608-609
劉志基《中國漢字文物大系》Vol. 7, p.558
林志強《《文源》評注》p.229-230
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