Stroke order

Note minor compositional differences.

睡 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月山竹十一 (BUHJM), four-corner 6201₄, composition ⿰目垂)

• 𬑩

• 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

Historical forms of the character 睡
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 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 垂 (OC *djol) – sleep.

May be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(d/n)waj (“to hang from; to cling to; creeper”); see 垂 (OC *djol, “to hang down”) for more (STEDT).

睡

1. (intransitive) to sleep

   睡會兒／睡会儿  ―  shuì huǐr  ―  to sleep for a while

2. (of bed, room, transitive) to sleep; to have the capacity for

   我睡這間房。／我睡这间房。  ―  Wǒ shuì zhè jiān fáng.  ―  I sleep in this room.

3. (colloquial, transitive) to sleep with (have sexual intercourse with somebody)

   被睡了  ―  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

   • 讀書欲睡，引錐自刺其股，血流至足。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     读书欲睡，引锥自刺其股，血流至足。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhanguo Ce, circa 5^th – 3^rd centuries BCE

     Dúshū yù shuì, yǐn zhuī zì cì qí gǔ, xuè liú zhì zú. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

6. a surname

• (to sleep):

• (to lie):

• “睡”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “睡”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 168.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. sleeping

• Go-on: ずい (zui)
• Kan-on: すい (sui, Jōyō)
• Kun: ねむる (nemuru, 睡る)、ねむり (nemuri)

睡 (eumhun 졸음 수 (joreum su))

1. hanja form^? of 수 (“sleeping”)

• 혼수 (昏睡, honsu, “coma”)
• 수면 (睡眠, sumyeon, “sleep”)

睡: Hán Nôm readings: thụy/thuỵ

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