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(Kangxi radical 131, +2, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 尸中人 (SLO), four-corner 78700, composition)

trad. /
simp.

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (“eye pointing down”) + (“person”).




BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
ModernBeijing(Pinyin)
MiddleChinese ngwaH
OldChinese /*[ŋ]ˁ[o]j-s/
English lie down, sleep
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13061
Phoneticcomponent
Rimegroup
Rimesubdivision 1
CorrespondingMC rime
OldChinese /*ŋʷaːls/
Notes 宿

  1. to lie down
  2. to sleep; to rest
  3. (of animals) to crouch
  4. (literary) to live in seclusion; to retreat
  5. (regional) to poach (to cook in boiling water)
  6. (in compounds) containing a bed; used for sleeping
    fángbedroom
    sleeping berth
  7. (in compounds) sleeper
    ruǎn ― soft sleeper
    yìng ― hard sleeper

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. to lie down
  2. prostrate
Kanji in this term
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC ngwaH).

臥() (ga) ←**ぐわ** (gwa)?

  1. to bend down; to lie down; to prostrate

(wa) (hangeul )

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臥: Hán Nôm readings: ngọa/ngoạ, ngọa/ngoạ

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