寤寐

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Chinese

		awake from sleep	sleep soundly
trad. (寤寐)		寤	寐
simp. ^#(寤寐)		寤	寐

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wùmèi

(Zhuyin): ㄨˋ ㄇㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁶ mei⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wùmèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄨˋ ㄇㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wùmèi
  - Wade–Giles: wu⁴-mei⁴
  - Yale: wù-mèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuhmey
  - Palladius: умэй (umɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹⁻⁵³ meɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ng⁶ mei⁶
  - Yale: ngh meih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁶ mei⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: ng⁶ méi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍²² mei̯²²/

Middle Chinese: nguH mjijH

Rime
Character	寤	寐
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	五故切	彌二切
Baxter	nguH	mjijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋuo^H/	/miɪ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋuo^H/	/mi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋo^H/	/mjɪ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɔ^H/	/mi^H/
Li Rong	/ŋo^H/	/mi^H/
Wang Li	/ŋu^H/	/mi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋuo^H/	/mi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wù	mì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ng⁶	mei⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋˤa-s mi-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːs mids/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	寤	寐
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wù	mèi
Middle Chinese	‹ ngu^H ›	‹ mjij^H ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋˁa-s/	/*mi-s/
English	awake	sleep
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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	寤	寐
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	13149	12910
Phonetic component	五	未
Rime group	魚	至
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	誤	寐
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːs/	/*mids/

Noun

寤寐

(literary) being awake and asleep; (figurative) all the time; day and night
- 窈窕淑女，寤寐求之。求之不得，寤寐思服。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Yǎotiǎo shūnǚ, wùmèi qiú zhī. Qiú zhī bùdé, wùmèi sīfú.
  The modest, retiring, virtuous, young lady:
  Waking and sleeping, he sought her.
  He sought her and found her not,
  And waking and sleeping he thought about her.
- 寤寐無為，涕泗滂沱。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  寤寐无为，涕泗滂沱。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Wùmèi wúwéi, tìsì pāngtuó.
  Waking or sleeping, I do nothing;
  From my eyes and nose the water streams.

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