眠

See also: 眼

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• 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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		眠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (民) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
眠	*miːn
民	*min
泯	*min, *minʔ
怋	*min, *mɯːn
岷	*mrin
珉	*mrin
罠	*mrin
笢	*mrin, *minʔ
鈱	*mrin
抿	*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
刡	*minʔ
敃	*mrinʔ
愍	*mrinʔ
暋	*mrinʔ
蟁	*mɯn

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 眠

1. to sleep
2. to hibernate

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Japanese

Kanji

眠

(Jōyō kanji)

1. sleep

Readings

• 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)

Derived terms

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

Kanji in this term
眠
みん Grade: S
kan'yōon

Noun

眠(みん) • (min) 

1. rest (of a silkworm before moulting)

Synonyms

• (of a silkworm): 休(やす)み (yasumi)

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Korean

Hanja

眠 • (myeon) (hangeul 면)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 眠 (miên)

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