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Definition 2024


Translingual

Stroke order
Shinjitai
Simplified
Traditional

Alternative forms

Note minor compositional differences.

Han character

(radical 109 +8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月山竹十一 (BUHJM), four-corner 62014, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 810, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23448
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1225, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2497, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7761

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*toːlʔ
*toːlʔ
*tʰoːl, *tʰoːls
*tʰoːls
*stol
*tol, *dols, *ɢʷɯ
*tol, *tjolʔ
*tols
*tols
*dol, *dols, *du
*dol, *dols
*dols
*tjolʔ
*djol
*djol
*djol
*djolʔ
*djols

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djols) : semantic  (eye) + phonetic  (OC *djol) – sleep.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (25)
Final () (12)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiuᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑʷiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑjuɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑwiə̆H/
Li
Rong
/ʑiueH/
Wang
Li
/ʑǐweH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑwie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shuì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shuì
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyweH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]o[j]-s/
English doze off

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. 1680
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*djols/

Definitions

  1. to sleep
  2. (of bed, room) to sleep; to have the capacity for

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 睡覺 (“to sleep”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 睡覺
Mandarin Beijing 睡覺
Taiwan 睡覺
Jinan 睡覺
Xi'an 睡覺
Wuhan 睡瞌睡
Chengdu 睡瞌睡
Yangzhou 睡覺
Hefei 睡覺
Cantonese Guangzhou 睏覺
Hong Kong 睏覺
Taishan 睏覺
Yangjiang 睏覺
Gan Nanchang 睏覺
Hakka Meixian 睡目
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 睡目
Liudui (S. Sixian) 睡目
Hsinchu (Hailu) 睡目
Dongshi (Dabu) 睡目
Zhuolan (Raoping) 睡目
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 睡目
Jin Taiyuan 睡覺
Min Bei Jian'ou 𡬍䁒
Min Dong Fuzhou
Min Nan Quanzhou
Xiamen
Zhangzhou
Taipei
Kaohsiung
Chaozhou
Shantou
Wu Shanghai 睏覺
Suzhou 睏覺
Wenzhou
Xiang Changsha 睏覺
Shuangfeng 睏眼閉、睏覺

Compounds

  • 倒頭就睡倒头就睡
  • 入睡 (rùshuì)
  • 午睡 (wǔshuì)
  • 半睡半醒
  • 卯睡
  • 呼呼大睡
  • 嗜睡症 (shìshuìzhèng)
  • 囫圇睡囫囵睡
  • 安睡
  • 小睡 (xiǎoshuì)
  • 打睡
  • 打瞌睡 (dǎkēshuì)
  • 打齁睡
  • 放睡
  • 昏昏欲睡 (hūnhūnyùshuì)
  • 昏睡 (hūnshuì)
  • 昏睡病
  • 沉睡
  • 淺睡浅睡
  • 渴睡
  • 渴睡漢渴睡汉
  • 濃睡浓睡
  • 熟睡
  • 獸睡兽睡
  • 盹睡
  • 睡不著 (shuìbùzháo)
  • 睡中覺睡中觉
  • 睡仙
  • 睡夢睡梦 (shuìmèng)
  • 睡帽
  • 睡意
  • 睡懶覺睡懒觉 (shuìlǎnjiào)
  • 睡晌覺睡晌觉
  • 睡獅睡狮
  • 睡病蟲睡病虫
  • 睡相
  • 睡眠 (shuìmián)
  • 睡眠療法睡眠疗法
  • 睡眼
  • 睡眼惺忪
  • 睡美人 (Shuìměirén)
  • 睡臥不寧睡卧不宁
  • 睡著 (shuìzháo)
  • 睡蓮睡莲
  • 睡虎子
  • 睡衣 (shuìyī)
  • 睡袋 (shuìdài)
  • 睡袍
  • 睡褲睡裤
  • 睡覺睡觉 (shuìjiào)
  • 睡語睡语
  • 睡鄉睡乡
  • 睡長覺睡长觉
  • 睡鞋
  • 睡魔
  • 睡鴨睡鸭
  • 瞌睡 (kēshuì)
  • 磕睡
  • 臥榻鼾睡卧榻鼾睡
  • 臨睡临睡 (línshuì)
  • 貪睡贪睡 (tānshuì)
  • 酣睡
  • 醒睡
  • 鼾睡 (hānshuì)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. sleeping

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(su) (hangeul , revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thuỵ)

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