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眠

mián

HSK 5 Character

What 眠 means

1. to sleep
2. to hibernate

Example sentences

• 我有失眠症。
  I can't sleep at night.
• 我睡眠不足。
  I'm not getting enough sleep.
• 我已两夜无眠。
  I haven't slept for two nights.
• 你接受过催眠吗？
  Have you ever been under hypnosis?
• 孩子需要很多睡眠。
  Children need a lot of sleep.
• 我最近一直睡眠不足。
  Wǒ zuì jìn yīzhí shuìmiánbùzú.
  I haven't been getting enough sleep lately.

Words containing 眠

• 失眠shī miánto suffer from insomnia
• 睡眠shuì miánsleep; to sleep; (computing) to enter sleep mode
• 催眠cuī miánto lull to sleep; to hypnotize
• 安眠药ān mián yàosleeping pill
• 冬眠dōng miánto hibernate; hibernation
• 入眠rù miánto fall asleep
• 长眠cháng mián(euphemism) to rest eternally; to lie buried in (one's final resting place)
• 安眠ān miánto sleep peacefully
• 休眠xiū mián(biology) dormant; (of a volcano) dormant; (computing) to hibernate
• 助眠zhù miánto promote sleep
• 永眠yǒng miánto pass away; to die; to rest eternally
• 舒眠shū miánto sleep well; to get restful sleep; (medicine) to be anesthetized
• 补眠bǔ miánto catch up on sleep
• 利眠宁lì mián níngchlordiazepoxide; (trade name) Librium (loanword)
• 微睡眠wēi shuì miánmicrosleep
• 睡眠虫shuì mián chóngtrypanosome
• 舒眠键shū mián jiànsleep mode button (on the remote control of an air conditioner)
• 不眠不休bù mián bù xiūwithout stopping to sleep or have a rest (idiom)
• 休眠火山xiū mián huǒ shāndormant volcano
• 夜不成眠yè bù chéng miánto be unable to sleep at night
• 彻夜不眠chè yè bù miánto be sleepless all night
• 我醉欲眠wǒ zuì yù miánlit. I'm drunk and would like to sleep (idiom)…
• 抵足而眠dǐ zú ér miánlit. to live and sleep together (idiom); fig. a close friendship
• 睡眠失调shuì mián shī tiáosleep disorder

Characters that look like 眠

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 很hěnvery; quite…
• 眼yǎneye; (often used with 一; small hole
• 眸móupupil (of the eye); eye
• 眶kuàng(bound form) eye socket; Taiwan pr. kuāng
• 珉mínjade-like stone
• 赈zhènto provide relief; to aid

Sounds the same

Read mián, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 棉generic term for cotton or kapok; cotton; padded or quilted with cotton
• 绵silk floss; continuous; soft
• 宀"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 宝盖
• 蝒large, black cicada; locust