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睡
睡
Translingual
| Stroke order | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Shinjitai | 睡 |
|---|---|
| Simplified | 睡 |
| Traditional | 睡 |
Alternative forms
Note minor compositional differences.
Han character
睡 (radical 109 目+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月山竹十一 (BUHJM), four-corner 62014, composition ⿰目垂)
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. |
睡 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 睡
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|---|---|
| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (垂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 埵 | *toːlʔ |
| 綞 | *toːlʔ |
| 涶 | *tʰoːl, *tʰoːls |
| 唾 | *tʰoːls |
| 厜 | *stol |
| 腄 | *tol, *dols, *ɢʷɯ |
| 箠 | *tol, *tjolʔ |
| 娷 | *tols |
| 諈 | *tols |
| 錘 | *dol, *dols, *du |
| 甀 | *dol, *dols |
| 硾 | *dols |
| 捶 | *tjolʔ |
| 垂 | *djol |
| 陲 | *djol |
| 倕 | *djol |
| 菙 | *djolʔ |
| 睡 | *djols |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djols) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 垂 (OC *djol) – sleep.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): soi
- Min Dong (BUC): sói
- Min Nan (POJ): chōe / chē
- Wu (Wiktionary): zoe (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˋ
- Wade-Giles: shui4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuey
- IPA (key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: seoi6
- Yale: seuih
- Cantonese Pinyin: soey6
- IPA (key): /sɵy̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: soi
- Hakka Romanization System: soi
- Hagfa Pinyim: soi4
- IPA: /so̯i⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: sói
- IPA (key): /suɔi²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chōe / chē
- Tâi-lô: tsuē / tsē
- Phofsit Daibuun: zoe, ze
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sue²²/, /t͡se²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sue⁴¹/, /t͡se⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sue²²/, /t͡se²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡sue³³/, /t͡se³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sue³³/, /t͡se³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: zoe (T3)
- IPA (key): /z̻ø²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 睡 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (12) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 是僞切 |
| 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 | 睡 |
| 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; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 睡 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1680 |
| Phonetic component |
垂 |
| Rime group |
歌 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
睡 |
| Old Chinese |
/*djols/ |
Definitions
睡
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 睡覺 (“to sleep”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 睡覺 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 睡覺、睡 |
| Taiwan | 睡覺、睡 | |
| Jinan | 睡覺 | |
| Xi'an | 睡覺 | |
| Wuhan | 睡瞌睡 | |
| Chengdu | 睡瞌睡 | |
| Yangzhou | 睡覺 | |
| Hefei | 睡覺 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 睏、睏覺 |
| Hong Kong | 睏、睏覺 | |
| Taishan | 睏、睏覺 | |
| Yangjiang | 睏、睏覺 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 睏、睏覺 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 睡目 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 睡目 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 睡目 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 睡目 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 睡目、睡 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 睡目、睡 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 睡目、睡 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 睡覺 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 𡬍䁒 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 睏 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 睏 |
| Xiamen | 睏 | |
| Zhangzhou | 睏 | |
| Taipei | 睏 | |
| Kaohsiung | 睏 | |
| Chaozhou | 夗 | |
| Shantou | 夗 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 睏、睏覺 |
| Suzhou | 睏覺 | |
| Wenzhou | 睏 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 睏、睏覺 |
| Shuangfeng | 睏眼閉、睏覺 | |
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
睡
Readings
- Goon: ずい (zui) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’on: すい (sui)
- Kun: ねむ.る (睡る, nemu.ru) (non-Jōyō reading), ねむり (nemuri) (non-Jōyō reading)
Korean
Hanja
睡 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
睡 (thuỵ)
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