qǐn
sleep
Phonosemantic compound. 𪧇 represents the meaning and 𠬶 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 寝
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
bedroom | ||
to lie down | ||
to go to sleep | ||
lit. cannot rest or eat in peace (idiom) | ||
to skip one's sleep and meals |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.8901% of movies
2970th most common character in movies
2806th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5BDD |
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