mián

close eyes

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
目 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

eye

民 sound component

  Sound component

mín

  

people

Definitions

 

mián

close eyes, sleep; hibernate; to sleep; to hibernate

Most common words with 眠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

睡眠

sleep

失眠

to suffer from insomnia

催眠

hypnosis

to sleep

安眠药

sleeping pill

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤi[n]

men

mián

shut the eyes; sleep


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 14.1118% of movies

1693rd most common character in movies

1986th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+7720


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