寝食不安
qǐn​shí​bù'ān

to be unable to eat or sleep peacefully

  • created sense approved 寝食不安/寢食不安 · qǐn​shí​bù'ān · to be unable to eat or sleep peacefully — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    寝食不安 / 寢食不安

    qǐn​shí​bù'ān

    to be unable to eat or sleep peacefully

    To be unable to eat or sleep comfortably due to extreme worry or anxiety; to lose one's appetite and sleep from being deeply troubled.

    寝 (literal) → 寝/寢 · qǐn · to sleep 食 (literal) → 食 · shí · to eat 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 安 (literal) → 安 · ān · peaceful or safe

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense