Character Details
| sleep | Ascii: — | w399 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 睡 | shuì | shoo:way | 4 | 目 (eye) + 垂 (droop) → sleep | 睡 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Our eyes droop when we want to sleep. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Did you sleep well? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 112 - 疋 | pǐ | dish | bolt of cloth | cloth roll | 疋 疏 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 目 (eye) + 垂 (droop) → sleep | 目 (semantic) | 垂 (phonetic) | phonetic from 垂 | ||||||||