Meaning & readings
lie down, sleep, rest, bed, remain unsold
Origin
This character combines a roof radical at the top, which represents a building or enclosed space where one rests, with a sound-hint component at the bottom that suggests how the character is pronounced. The roof component makes sense for "sleep" since sleeping happens indoors, in bed, under shelter. The lower part doesn't add to the meaning but instead acts as a phonetic guide to help readers know roughly how to say the character. Together, the roof establishes the concept of rest or sleep, while the bottom component anchors the pronunciation.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 宀
- しょうへん+けいがしら+冖+又
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 40
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1034 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+05BDD