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Character: 眠
Modern (Beijing) reading: mián
Preclassic Old Chinese: mīn
Classic Old Chinese: mīn
Western Han Chinese: mjǝ̄n
Eastern Han Chinese: miǝ̄n
Early Postclassic Chinese: miēn
Middle Postclassic Chinese: miēn
Late Postclassic Chinese: miēn
Middle Chinese: mien
English meaning : shut the eyes
Russian meaning[s]: 1) спать, дремать; сон; 2) спячка (у животных); 3) положить горизонтально; лечь горизонтально; горизонтальный, лежачий
Comments: Also read *mīnʔ, MC míen, Pek. miǎn 'befool'. For *m- cf. Xiamen bin2, Chaozhou miŋ2, Fuzhou mieŋ2, Jianou mɛiŋ2.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 109
Four-angle index: 6712
Karlgren code: 0457 e
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