瞌

瞌 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月山土戈廿 (BUGIT), four-corner 6401₇, composition ⿰目盍)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 814, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23570
• Dae Jaweon: page 1228, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2505, character 5
• Unihan data for U+778C

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰaːb): semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 盍 (OC *ɡaːb).

瞌

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) sleepy
2. (Cantonese) to doze

   佢頭先瞌著咗。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   佢头先瞌著咗。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   keoi⁵ tau⁴ sin¹ hap¹ zoek⁶ zo².

   He fell asleep just now.

   我返房瞌一陣。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我返房瞌一阵。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ faan¹ fong^4-2 hap¹ jat¹ zan⁶.

   I will return to my room to take a nap.

• (to close one's eyes): 閉上／闭上 (bìshang)

瞌

1. (Hokkien, Teochew, Leizhou Min, Puxian Min) to close (one's eyes)
   • 瞌目 [Hokkien]  ―  kheh-ba̍k [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to close the eyes
   • 目睭瞌瞌 [Hokkien]  ―  ba̍k-chiu kheh-kheh [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  eyes almost shut
   • 2023, “只要有你”, in 麗蓉 (lyrics), 彩藝 (music), 十八般武藝, performed by 黃妃 [Huang Fei]:

     甘願瞌著目睭騙自己 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     甘愿瞌著目睭骗自己 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     kam-goān kheh-tio̍h ba̍k-chiu phiàn chū-kí [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     I'm willing to close my eyes to lie to myself

2. (Leizhou Min, Hainanese) to sleep
   • 2014, 强哥 [Mr Hiang], “海南粉”, in 大海南‎, performed by 强哥 [Mr Hiang]:

     暗上早早瞌　天光早早醒 [Hainanese, trad. and simp.]

     Sleep early in the evening, wake up early at the break of dawn

瞌 (Hokkien)

1. Alternative form of 交 (ka), used in 瞌睡 (ka-chōe).

• “瞌”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): こう (kō)