眠 — Chinese character
眠
mián
sleep, shut-eye, hibernatation
- Pinyin
- mián
- Radical
- 109 ⽬ (Eye)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 目 民
- Formation
- pictophonetic — eye; meaning component 目; sound component 民
- Japanese
- 眠 as a kanji
Common words with 眠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 睡眠 | shuì mián | sleep; to sleep |
| 催眠 | cuī mián | to lull to sleep; to hypnotize |
| 失眠 | shī mián | to suffer from insomnia |
| 冬眠 | dōng mián | to hibernate; hibernation |
| 安眠药 (安眠藥) | ān mián yào | sleeping pill; measure word: 粒 (lì) |
| 休眠 | xiū mián | (biology) dormant; (of a volcano) dormant |
| 入眠 | rù mián | to fall asleep |
| 长眠 (長眠) | cháng mián | (euphemism) to rest eternally; to lie buried in (one's final resting place) |
| 安眠 | ān mián | to sleep peacefully |
| 催眠术 (催眠術) | cuī mián shù | hypnotism; hypnotherapy |
| 不眠不休 | bù mián bù xiū | without stopping to sleep or have a rest (idiom) |
| 彻夜不眠 (徹夜不眠) | chè yè bù mián | to be sleepless all night |
English words written with 眠
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.