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Kanji Detail for 寢 - "sleep, rest, bedroom"
寢
- Meaning
寢 means "sleep, rest, bedroom."
Sleep - To rest; to slumber.
Bedroom - A room for sleeping.
Stop - To cease; to discontinue.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
sleep; rest; bed chamber
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
sleep, rest; bed chamber
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
(bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest; (bound form) bedroom; (bound form) imperial tomb; (literary) to stop; to cease
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to sleep, to rest; bedroom
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Resting after the day's work is done. Such as 就寢. Sleep has set times, so when Zai Yu slept during the day, Confucius criticized him. See (Analects). | Hall and chamber. Without east and west wings but having chambers is called 寢. See (Erya). Also, any residence is called 寢. Such as the place for handling affairs called 正寢; the place for relaxation called 內寢. | Imperial tomb. Before the Three Dynasties, there were no grave sacrifices. Starting from Qin, 寢 were built beside tombs. Han followed Qin's system; above tombs all had 園寢. See (Records of the Grand Historian). | To cease. Such as when wind and tide have stopped, it's called 其事已寢. When a matter is not pursued, it's called 遂寢其議. | Ugly appearance. 寢 means short and small, like saying "not impressive." Also written as 侵. | [Character analysis] The top is from 宀, not from 穴.
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