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眠
mián HSK5

close eyes

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 民 represents the sound.

Components

目
目 Meaning component
mù eye
民
民 Sound component
mín people

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartmenmˤi[n]shut the eyes; sleep
Zhengzhangmiːn
Unicodemen

Sources

Readings & variants
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Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
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