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Translingual

Han character

(radical 36 +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 弓戈尸山 (NISU), four-corner 27212, composition)

  1. to turn over when asleep

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 246, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5752
  • Dae Jaweon: page 489, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 861, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5917

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qoːls, *qoːn, *qonʔ
*qoːn
*qoːn
*qoːn
*qoːn, *qon
*qoːn, *qon, *qonʔ
*qoːn
*qoːnʔ
*qoːnʔ
*qoːnʔ
*qoːns
*qoːns
*qoːns
*qoːns, *qonʔ, *qoːd
*qoːns, *qonʔ
*quːn, *qon
*qon
*qon, *qonʔ
*qon, *qonʔ
*qon, *qons
*qon
*qonʔ
*qonʔ
*qonʔ, *qud
*qonʔ, *qons
*qonʔ
*qonʔ, *qons
*qonʔ
*qonʔ
*qod, *qod, *qud
*qoːd

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  + .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (66)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔʉɐnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔʷiɐnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔiuɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔuanX/
Li
Rong
/ʔiuɐnX/
Wang
Li
/ĭwɐnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯wɐnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yuǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
wǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjwonX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ʔ]o[r]ʔ/
English turn over in bed

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. 16289
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qonʔ/

Definitions

  1. (Teochew) to sleep
  2. (Teochew) to lie down

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

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(won) (hangeul , revised won, McCune-Reischauer wŏn, Yale wen)

  1. 누워 뒹굴다: lie down