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U+7761, 睡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7761

[U+7760]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7762]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
13 strokes
Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Alternative forms[edit]

Note minor compositional differences.

Han character[edit]

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

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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[edit]

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
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 (eye) + phonetic (OC *djol) – sleep.

Etymology[edit]

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 (OC *djol, “to hang down”), (OC *toːlʔ, “to hang from a tree; classifier for blossoms”), (OC *l̥ʰoːlʔ, “oblong; oval”), (OC *l'oːlʔ, *l'oːls, “lazy”) and (OC *ŋljolʔ, *ŋljulʔ, “reproductive organ of flower”).

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • sūi/sùi - literary;
  • chē/chōe/chēr - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (25)
Final () (12)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter dzyweH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiuᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑʷiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑjuɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑwiə̆H/
Li
Rong
/ʑiueH/
Wang
Li
/ʑǐweH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑwie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shuì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
seoi6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shuì
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyweH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]o[j]-s/
English doze off

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 1680
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*djols/

Definitions[edit]

  1. (intransitive) to sleep
    會兒会儿  ―  shuì huǐr  ―  to sleep for a while
  2. (of bed, room, transitive) to sleep; to have the capacity for
      ―  shuì zhè jiān fáng.  ―  I sleep in this room.
  3. (colloquial, transitive) to sleep with (have sexual intercourse with somebody)
      ―  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

Synonyms[edit]

  • (to sleep):
  • (to lie):

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. sleeping

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(eumhun 졸음 (joreum su))

  1. Hanja form? of (sleeping).

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: thụy/thuỵ

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