寐

寐 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十女一木 (JVMD), four-corner 3029₅, composition ⿱宀⿰爿未)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 289, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7236
• Dae Jaweon: page 572, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 944, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5BD0

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mids) : abbreviated semantic 㝱 (“dream”) + phonetic 未 (OC *mɯds).

Original form may have been an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 宀 (“house”) + 爿 (“bed”) + 人 (“person”) – a person sleeping on a bed in a room. Compare ancient forms of 夢.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/s-mwəj (“to sleep; to dream”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan རྨི་བ (rmi ba, “to dream”), Tibetan རྨི་ལམ (rmi lam, “dream”), Burmese မွေ့ (mwe., “to enjoy sleep”).

寐

1. (literary) to sleep

   Antonym: 寤 (wù)

   • 吾聞之，喜而不寐。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     吾闻之，喜而不寐。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Wú wén zhī, xǐ ér bù mèi. [Pinyin]

     When I heard of it, I was so glad that I could not sleep.

2. (archaic, euphemistic) to die
3. a surname

• “寐”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: み (mi)
• Kan-on: び (bi)
• Kun: いぬ (inu, 寐ぬ); ねる (neru, 寐る)

寐 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae)

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寐: Hán Nôm readings: mị

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