夢
mèng HSK4

dream

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Depicts a person (人) with an emphasized eye (𥄕) sleeping on a bed (爿), conveying the meaning "dream". The 爿 (bed) component was later reanalyzed as meaning component 夕 (evening).

Components

𥄕
𥄕 SoundIconic component

Depicts an eye (目) with an eyebrow.

人
人 Iconic component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 人 than it was in ancient scripts.
夕
夕 Meaning component

Originally 爿, which depicted a bed. Later reanalyzed as meaning component 夕 (evening).

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmjuwngHC.məŋ-s dream

說文解字

《說文》：“夢，不明也。从夕，瞢省聲。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.608-609劉志基《中國漢字文物大系》Vol. 7, p.558林志強《《文源》評注》p.229-230漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)