Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- qǐn
English
- sleep, rest
- (bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest
- to sleep; to go to bed
- bed chamber
- (bound form) bedroom
- (bound form) imperial tomb
- (literary) to stop; to cease
粵語
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Variants
Words containing 寢
- 寢室cam2 sat1
bedroom
- 就寢zau6 cam2
to go to sleep
- 寢具cam2 geoi6
bedding
- 寢食不安cam2 sik6 bat1 on1
see 寢食難安|寝食难安[qin3 shi2 nan2 an1]
- 寢食cam2 sik6
sleep and eat
- 陵寢ling4 cam2
tomb (of king or emperor)
- 安寢on1 cam2
to sleep peacefully
- 廢寢食fai3 cam2 sik6
to neglect sleep and food
- 廢寢忘食fai3 cam2 mong4 sik6
(idiom) to skip one's sleep and meals; to be completely wrapped up in one's work
- 壽終正寢sau6 zung1 zing3 cam2
to die of old age
- 廢寢忘餐fai3 cam2 mong4 caan1
see 廢寢忘食|废寝忘食[fei4 qin3 wang4 shi2]
- 寢食難安cam2 sik6 naan4 on1
(lit.) unable to sleep or eat in peace (idiom)
- 食肉寢皮sik6 juk6 cam2 pei4
to eat sb's flesh and sleep on their hide (idiom); to swear revenge on sb
- 壽終內寢sau6 zung1 noi6 cam2
(of women) to die a natural death at a high age
- 忘餐廢寢mong4 caan1 fai3 cam2
see 廢寢忘食|废寝忘食[fei4 qin3 wang4 shi2]
- 寢苫枕塊cam2 sim1 zam2 faai3
bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom)
- 就寢時間zau6 cam2 si4 gaan3
- 又長又寢jau6 zoeng2 jau6 cam2
- 寢具總彙cam2 geoi6 zung2 wui6
- 枕戈寢甲zam2 gwo1 cam2 gaap3
lit. to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom)
- 宰予晝寢zoi2 jyu5 zau3 cam2