睡

Translingual

Stroke order

shinjitai	睡
simplified	睡
traditional	睡

Alternative forms

Note minor compositional differences.

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 垂 – sleep, shut-eye.

Han character

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

1. sleep, doze

References

• KangXi: page 810, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23448
• Dae Jaweon: page 1225, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2497, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7761

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Cantonese

Hanzi

睡 (jyutping seoi6, Yale seui6)

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Japanese

Kanji

睡 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: すい (sui)
• Kun: ねむる (nemuru), ねむり (nemuri)

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Korean

Hanja

睡 (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

睡 (pinyin shuì (shui4), Wade-Giles shui⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

睡 (thụy, thuỵ)