Chinese Character Wiki
睡

shuì

sleep

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 垂 represents the sound.

Components
目 meaning component

目  Meaning component

mù

  

eye

垂 sound component

垂  Sound component

chuí

  

droop

Evolution

睡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
睡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

睡  

shuì

sleep, doze; to sleep; to lie down

Most common words with 睡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

睡

to sleep

睡觉

to go to bed

睡眠

sleep

睡着

to fall asleep

睡衣

pajamas

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]o[j]-s

dzyweH

shuì

doze off


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 67.9000% of movies

471st most common character in movies

964th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7761

Shuowen

“睡，坐寐也。从目、垂。”


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