Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 寐
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寐 |
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Meaning |
to sleep, be asleep |
Pronunciation |
mèi |
Explanation |
Top: roof 宀, below: variant of fragment 爿 (here: as a bed 丬), not yet 未 (The upper shorter branch 一 of the tree 木 is "not yet") |
Mnemonic
| Under the roof there is a bed 爿/丬, but I am not yet (ready) to: sleep. |
Radicals
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宀
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roof | |
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丬
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bed | (Simplification of fragment: 爿 which shows a tree split lengthwise. (片 is the other half) - Not at least because of its use with these characters 寐, 寝 for 'sleep', it got the meaning of "bed".) |
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未
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unripe, not yet | (The upper branch of the tree is shorter, thus 'not yet' or immature.) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 梦寐以求 |
mèng mèi yǐ qiú |
desire of one's dreams | | 魇寐 |
yǎn mèi |
to have a nightmare | | 辗侧不寐 |
zhǎn cè bù mèi |
to toss and turn in one's bed; unable to sleep (idiom) |
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