Memory phrase for the character: 寐

寐

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Meaning to sleep, be asleep

Pronunciation

mèi

Explanation

Top: roof 宀, below: variant of fragment 爿 (here: as a bed 丬), not yet 未 (The upper shorter branch 一 of the tree 木 is "not yet")

Mnemonic
 
Under the roof there is a bed 爿/丬, but I am not yet (ready) to: sleep.

Radicals

宀 roof
丬 bedSimplification of fragment: 爿 which shows a tree split lengthwise. (片 is the other half) - Not at least because of its use with these characters 寐,寝 for 'sleep', it got the meaning of "bed".
未 unripe, not yetThe upper branch of the tree is shorter, thus 'not yet' or immature.
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 Vocabulary

梦寐以求 mèng mèi yǐ qiú  desire of one's dreams
魇寐 yǎn mèi  to have a nightmare
辗侧不寐 zhǎn cè bù mèi  to toss and turn in one's bed; unable to sleep (idiom)
辗侧不寐 zhǎn cè bù mèi  

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