U+7761, 睡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7761

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

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 
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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