Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- mián
English
- close eyes, sleep
- to sleep
- hibernate
- to hibernate
- to sleep; an informal way of saying 瞓覺
粵語
- 由睡眠度嚟，係瞓覺嘅另一個通俗講法
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 眠
- 睡眠seoi6 min4
sleep
- 失眠sat1 min4
to suffer from insomnia
- 催眠ceoi1 min4
to lull to sleep
- 冬眠dung1 min4
to hibernate
- 長眠coeng4 min4
(euphemism) to rest eternally; to lie buried in (one's final resting place)
- 休眠jau1 min4
(biology) dormant
- 安眠on1 min4
to sleep peacefully
- 安眠藥on1 min4 joek6
sleeping pill
- 催眠曲ceoi1 min4 kuk1
lullaby
- 入眠jap6 min4
to fall asleep
- 蠶眠caam4 min4
a silkworm's period of inactivity prior to molting
- 睡眠蟲seoi6 min4 cung4
trypanosome
- 酣眠ham4 min4
to sleep soundly; to be fast asleep
- 催眠藥ceoi1 min4 joek6
soporific drug
- 催眠術ceoi1 min4 seot6
hypnotism
- 失眠症sat1 min4 zing3
Insomnia
- 蟄眠zat6 min4
to hibernate
- 不眠不休bat1 min4 bat1 jau1
without stopping to sleep or have a rest (idiom)
- 成眠sing4 min4
- 補眠bou2 min4
to catch up on sleep
- 春眠ceon1 min4
- 助眠zo6 min4
to promote sleep
- 眠牀min4 cong4
- 夏眠haa6 min4