睡

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

Note minor compositional differences.

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𬑩

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 810, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23448
• Dae Jaweon: page 1225, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2497, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7761

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 睡
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *djols) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 垂 (OC *djol) – sleep.

Etymology

May be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(d/n)waj (“to hang from; to cling to; creeper”) (STEDT), whence Burmese တွယ် (twai, “to cling”). May be related to 垂 (OC *djol, “to hang down”), 朵 (OC *toːlʔ, “to hang from a tree; classifier for blossoms”), 橢 (OC *l̥ʰoːlʔ, “oblong; oval”), 惰 (OC *l'oːlʔ, *l'oːls, “lazy”) and 蕊 (OC *ŋljolʔ, *ŋljulʔ, “reproductive organ of flower”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

睡

1. (intransitive) to sleep

   睡會兒／睡会儿  ―  shuì huǐr  ―  to sleep for a while

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

   我睡這間房。／我睡这间房。  ―  Wǒ shuì zhè jiān fáng.  ―  I sleep in this room.

3. (colloquial, transitive) to sleep with (have sexual intercourse with somebody)

   被睡了  ―  bèi shuì le  ―  to be slept with (to have sexual intercourse unconsciously, unwillingly or unhappily)

4. (dialectal) to lie; to recline
5. (literary, intransitive) to nod off

   • 讀書欲睡，引錐自刺其股，血流至足。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     读书欲睡，引锥自刺其股，血流至足。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhanguo Ce, circa 5^th – 3^rd centuries BCE

     Dúshū yù shuì, yǐn zhuī zì cì qí gǔ, xuè liú zhì zú.

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

• (to sleep):

• (to lie):

Compounds

References

• “睡”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. sleeping

Readings

• Go-on: ずい (zui)
• Kan-on: すい (sui, Jōyō)
• Kun: ねむる (nemuru, 睡る); ねむり (nemuri)

Korean

Hanja

睡 (eumhun 졸음 수 (joreum su))

1. Hanja form^? of 수 (“sleeping”).

Vietnamese

Han character

睡: Hán Nôm readings: thụy/thuỵ

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