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Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC 
Seal Qin 221-206 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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Originally depicts a person (人) sleeping on a bed (爿) inside a house (宀). Later written into a phonosemantic compound. 𪧇 represents the meaning and 未 represents the sound.
Components
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | mjijH | mi[t]-s | sleep |
說文解字
《說文》：“寐，卧也。从省，未聲。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 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)