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mèi

Meanings

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mèi
  1. 1.to sleep soundly

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to sleep
  2. 2.to die
  3. 3.a surname

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Etymology

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 *rV-mi(k) (“to sleep; to dream”) (STEDT under *r/s-mwəy). Cognate with Tibetan རྨི་བ (rmi ba, “to dream”), Tibetan རྨི་ལམ (rmi lam, “dream”).

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Components

寐宀爿未

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Synonyms

臥寢眠睡就寢寢息睡覺睡眠歇覺睏覺歇呼啷睡瞌睡睏瞌睡上蘇州睏瞓覺瞓見周公搵周公覺覺豬瞓記瞓覺覺豬豬睡目瞇覺瞇曬鋪閉眼睡眼

Antonyms

寤

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Derived terms

不寐假寐入寐夕寐宵興夕寐宵兴夙興夜寐夙兴夜寐夢寐梦寐夢寐以求梦寐以求失寐安寐宵寐寐寐寐寤寐息寐覺寐觉寐語寐语寐魘寐魇寐魚寐鱼寢不成寐寝不成寐寢不聊寐寝不聊寐寢不能寐

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Related words

寤寐 (literary) awake or asleep; (fig.) all the time; constantly魇寐 to have a nightmare寐龙 Mei, dinosaur genus梦寐 to dream假寐 to doze寤寐求之 (idiom) to long for sb or sth day and night; to seek it unceasingly梦寐以求 (lit.) to yearn for sth even in one's dreams (idiom)夙兴夜寐 to rise early and sleep late (idiom); to work hard