CHINESE CHARACTER

眠 (mián): Meaning, Words & Stroke Order

mián

sleep, shut-eye, hibernatation

HSK 510 strokes

LEARNING CONNECTIONS

目

Primary radical

目 is the Unicode primary radical used to organise 眠.

民

Phonetic component

民 is recorded as the sound-side component in this pictophonetic analysis.

STROKES · 10

Write 眠 in 10 steps.

Each square adds one stroke in the standard writing order.

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Vocabulary with 眠

失眠shīmián

HSK 5 · to suffer from insomnia

睡眠shuìmián

HSK 5 · sleep; to sleep; (computing) to enter sleep mode

安眠药ānmiányào

HSK 7-9 · sleeping pill

催眠cuīmián

HSK 7-9 · to lull to sleep; to hypnotize

休眠xiūmián

HSK 7-9 · (biology) dormant; (of a volcano) dormant; (computing) to hibernate

Examples using 眠

失眠

我有失眠症。

Wǒ yǒu shī mián zhèng。

I can't sleep at night.

睡眠

我最近一直睡眠不足。

Wǒ zuì jìn yì zhí shuì mián bù zú。

I haven't been getting enough sleep lately.

催眠

你接受过催眠吗？

Nǐ jiē shòu guò cuī mián ma？

Have you ever been under hypnosis?

FAQ

What does 眠 (mián) mean in Chinese?

sleep, shut-eye, hibernatation

How do you write 眠 in stroke order?

眠 has 10 strokes. Follow the animated stroke-order sequence above, then practise it on the writing page.

What is the radical of 眠?

目 is the radical in 眠. It can provide a meaning-side clue.

What are common words with 眠?

失眠 (shīmián): to suffer from insomnia; 睡眠 (shuìmián): sleep; to sleep; (computing) to enter sleep mode; 安眠药 (ānmiányào): sleeping pill.