眠 mián

1. mián verb to sleep
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Barnes 2007, p. 58; CC-CEDICT '眠'; Guoyu '眠' v 1; Kroll 2015 '眠' 1, p. 305; Unihan '眠')
2. mián verb to hibernate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '眠'; Guoyu '眠' v 2; Kroll 2015 '眠' 1b, p. 305; Unihan '眠')
3. mián verb to act as if dead
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '眠' v 3; Kroll 2015 '眠' 2, p. 305)
4. mián adjective latent; concealed
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '眠' adj 1)
5. mián adjective laid down
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '眠' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '眠' 3, p. 305)
6. mián verb to close the eyes
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '眠' 1a, p. 305; Unihan '眠')

Contained in

• 不眠不休 without stopping to sleep or have a rest
• 沉眠 to be deep asleep ; to doze
• 睡眠虫(睡眠蟲) trypanosome
• 失眠 to not be able to sleep
• 长眠(長眠) eternal sleep; death
• 蚕眠(蠶眠) a silkworm's period of inactivity prior to molting
• 夜眠 sleep during the night
• 睡眠 sleeping
• 彻夜不眠(徹夜不眠) to be sleepless all night
• 我醉欲眠 I'm drunk and would like to sleep; (used to indicate one's sincere and straightforward nature)
• 冬眠 hibernation
• 安眠酮 methaqualone; hyminal
• 催眠 hypnosis
• 休眠火山 dormant volcano
• 催眠状态(催眠狀態) hypnosis
• 睡眠失调(睡眠失調) sleep disorder
• 自我催眠 self-hypnotism
• 睡眠不足 lack of sleep; sleep deficit
• 抵足而眠 to live and sleep together; a close friendship
• 蛰眠(蟄眠) to hibernate
• 沈眠 to be deep asleep
• 休眠 to be dormant (biology); inactive (volcano); to hibernate (computing)
• 酣眠 to sleep soundly; fast asleep
• 夜不成眠 to be unable to sleep at night
• 补眠(補眠) to catch up on sleep
• 催眠曲 lullaby
• 安眠药(安眠藥) sleeping pill
• 睡眠呼吸暂停(睡眠呼吸暫停) central sleep apnea (CSA)
• 入眠 to fall asleep
• 催眠药(催眠藥) soporific drug
• 永眠 eternal rest (i.e. death)
• 利眠宁(利眠寧) chlordiazepoxide; (trade name) Librium
• 睡眠者 sleeper
• 催眠术(催眠術) hypnotism; hypnotherapy; mesmerism
• 催眠剂(催眠劑) sleeping medication

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安眠

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Truncated for common words

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• 第四十七回 Chapter 47 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 3
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Collocations

• 眠床 (眠床) 所眠床忽有數升血 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷七十一 列傳第三十一 徐湛 江湛 王僧綽 Volume 71 Biographies 31: Xu Zhan, Jiang Zhan, Wang Sengchao — count: 8
• 眠食 (眠食) 若大損眠食 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六十七 列傳第三十七 溫嶠 郗鑒 Volume 67 Biographies 37: Wen Jiao; Xi Jian — count: 6
• 醉眠 (醉眠) 見籍方據案醉眠 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷四十九 列傳第十九 阮籍 嵇康 向秀 劉伶 謝鯤 胡毋輔之 畢卓 王尼 羊曼 光逸 Volume 49 Biographies 19: Ruan Ji; Ji Kang; Xiang Xiu; Liu Ling; Xie Kun; Huwu Fuzhi; Bi Zhuo; Wang Ni; Yang Man; Guang Yi — count: 6
• 眠中 (眠中) 眠中夢人告之曰 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷七十九 列傳第三十九 文五王 Volume 79 Biographies 39: Wen Wuwang — count: 5
• 仟眠 (仟眠) 逺望兮仟眠 — Songs of Chu 楚辭, 卷第十五 九懷 Chapter 15: Nine Regrets — count: 4
• 龙眠 (龍眠) 肆意于龍眠山岩壑間 — History of Song 宋史, 卷四百四十四 列傳第二百〇三 文苑六 黃庭堅 晁補之從弟:詠之 秦觀 張耒 陳師道 李廌 劉恕 王無咎 蔡肇 李格非 呂南公 郭祥正 米芾 劉詵 倪濤 李公麟 周邦彥 朱長文 劉弇 Volume 444 Biographies 203: Literature 6 - Huang Tingjian, Chao Buzhicongdi:yongzhi, Qin Guan, Zhang Lei, Chen Shidao, Li Zhi, Liu Shu, Wang Wujiu, Cai Zhao, Li Gefei, Lu Nangong, Guo Xiangzheng, Mi Fei, Liu Shen, Ni Tao, Li Gonglin, Zhou Bangyan, Zhu Zhangwen, Liu Yan — count: 4
• 昼眠 (晝眠) 晝眠夜起如平常 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷七 本紀第七 東昏侯 Volume 7 Annals 7: Marquess of Donghun — count: 4
• 眠山 (眠山) 前崗見一牛眠山汙中 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷五十八 列傳第二十八 周處 周訪 Volume 58 Biographies 28: Zhou Chu; Zhou Fang — count: 4
• 不能眠 (不能眠) 耿耿伏枕不能眠 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷二十一 志第十一 樂三 Volume 21 Treatises 11: Music 3 — count: 4
• 眠卧 (眠臥) 先主與雲同床眠臥 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷三十六 蜀書六 關張馬黃趙傳 Volume 36: Book of Shu 6 - Biographies of Guan, Zhang, Ma, Huang, and Zhao — count: 3