U+5BD0, 寐
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BD0

[U+5BCF]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5BD1]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 40, +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十女一木 (JVMD), four-corner 30295, composition )

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 289, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7236
  • Dae Jaweon: page 572, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 944, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+5BD0

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
2nd round simp. ⿱宀⿰丬未
alternative forms 𥧌

Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *mids) : abbreviated semantic (dream) + phonetic (OC *mɯds).

Original form may have been an ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (house) + (bed) + (person) – a person sleeping on a bed in a room. Compare ancient forms of .

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/s-mwəj (to sleep; to dream) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan རྨི་བ (rmi ba, to dream), Tibetan རྨི་ལམ (rmi lam, dream), Burmese မွေ့ (mwe., to enjoy sleep).

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (15)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter mjijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/miɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/miH/
Shao
Rongfen
/mjɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miH/
Li
Rong
/miH/
Wang
Li
/miH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/miH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mei6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mèi
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjijH ›
Old
Chinese
/*mi[t]-s/
English sleep

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. 12910
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mids/

Definitions edit

  1. (literary) to sleep
    Antonym: ()
  2. (archaic, euphemistic) to die
  3. a surname

Synonyms edit

Compounds edit

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(mae) (hangeul , revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: mị

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