眠

眠 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月山口女心 (BURVP), four-corner 6704₇, composition ⿰目民)

• 𪦓, 𬧆, 𥋹, 𭿱, 𥉦, 𮐊, 𥌱

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 805, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23240
• Dae Jaweon: page 1221, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2483, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7720

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *miːn) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 民 (OC *min) – close your eyes and go to sleep.

眠

1. to sleep

   橫掂仲有兩個鐘先上得機，再眠陣添都唔怕。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   横掂仲有两个钟先上得机，再眠阵添都唔怕。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   waang⁴ dim⁶ zung⁶ jau⁵ loeng⁵ go³ zung¹ sin¹ soeng⁵ dak¹ gei¹, zoi³ min⁴ zan⁶ tim¹ dou¹ m⁴ paa³.

   Since there is still two hours before boarding anyway, there's no worry in napping a little more.

2. to hibernate
3. (archaic) to feign death
4. (archaic or Hakka, Siyi Yue) to lie down

眠

1. Only used in 眠娗.

• “眠”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. sleep

• Go-on: めん (men)
• Kan-on: べん (ben)
• Kan’yō-on: みん (min, Jōyō)
• Kun: ねむい (nemui, 眠い, Jōyō)、ねむる (nemuru, 眠る, Jōyō)、ねむり (nemuri)

• 眠(ねむ)い (nemui)
• 居(い)眠(ねむ)り (inemuri)
• 睡(すい)眠(みん) (suimin)

• (Tokyo) みん (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

眠(みん) • (min) 

1. rest (of a silkworm before moulting)

• (of a silkworm): 休(やす)み (yasumi)

眠 (eumhun 잠잘 면 (jamjal myeon))

1. hanja form^? of 면 (“close eyes, sleep”)
2. hanja form^? of 면 (“hibernate”)

眠: Hán Nôm readings: miên

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