Chinese Character 寝 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

寝 meaning[3] in English

Old Variant Of 寢|寝[Qin3].

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 5 main shapes where their meanings are 'roof' radical in … (宀) , 'piece of wood' … (丬) , pig snout (Kangxi … (彐) , 'cover' radical in … (冖) , and (once) again (又)

Its radical[1] is: (mian2) which means: 'Roof' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 40), Occurring In 家, 定, 安 Etc, See Also 寶蓋|宝盖[Bao3 Gai4], .mian2'roof' radical …

In cangjie it is written with JLME

How to write 寝

To writeqin3old variant … you should write a combination of mian2'roof' radical … , qiang2'piece of … ji4pig snout … mi4'cover' radical … you4(once) again arranged in a shape:

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寝 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 寝 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:qin3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 寢|寝[Qin3]

Pinyin:mian2
Meaning[3]: 'Roof' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 40), Occurring In 家, 定, 安 Etc . See Also 寶蓋|宝盖[Bao3 Gai4]

Pinyin:qiang2
Meaning[3]: 'Piece Of Wood' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 90), Mirror Image Of 片[Pian4]

Pinyin:bing1
Meaning[3]: 'Ice' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 15), Occurring In 冰[Bing1], 次[Ci4] Etc, Known As 兩點水|两点水[Liang3 Dian3 Shui3]

Pinyin:gun3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 2)

Pinyin:ji4
Meaning[3]: Pig Snout (Kangxi Radical 58)

Pinyin:mi4
Meaning[3]: 'Cover' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 14), Occurring In 軍|军[Jun1], 冠[Guan1] Etc, Known As 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[Tu1 Bao3 Gai4] Or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[Ping2 Bao3 Gai4]

Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

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