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眠

mián

close eyes, sleep; hibernate

Strokes
10
Radical
目
HSK
5
Tone
2

Stroke order

Example sentences

  • 孩子需要很多睡眠。

    Hái zi xū yào hěn duō shuì mián

    Children need a lot of sleep.

  • 我最近一直睡眠不足。

    Wǒ zuì jìn yī zhí shuì mián bù zú

    I haven't been getting enough sleep lately.

  • 我睡眠不足。

    Wǒ shuì mián bù zú

    I'm not getting enough sleep.

  • 她在睡眠中安详地去世了。

    Tā zài shuì mián zhōng ān xiáng de qù shì le

    She passed away peacefully in her sleep.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 眠

  • 睡眠shuì mián 4–2 sleep; to sleep; (computing) to enter sleep mode
  • 失眠shī mián 1–2 to suffer from insomnia
  • 催眠cuī mián 1–2 hypnosis
  • 安眠药ān mián yào 1–2–4sleeping pill
  • 休眠xiū mián 1–2 to be dormant (biology); inactive (volcano); to hibernate (computing)