old variant of 寢|寝[qin3]
to lie down

寝 character breakdown

"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a cooking top. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a cooking top (冖) instead.
(once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway

= + : And once again (又), Maud Younger (y) is preparing for battle. She's donning her boxing glove in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), puts on a beak (㇇) and plans go give her opponent the finger (㇏).
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀). Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to go to the anthill after her graduation from university. In the anthill's kitchen (an2), her friends snatch away her graduation cap (宀), and instead put a cooking top (冖) and a petal leaf (丶) on her head.
pig snout (Kangxi radical 58)

= + : Joan of Arc wears a fake pig snout in the space station's bathroom and makes grunting and squealing sounds.
"piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片[pian4]

= + : Just as she entered the anglepod, the Queen of Hearts craves for a popsicle. It seems like a miracle that just inside the anglepod's kitchen she finds a crate full of popsicles, which she cracks open using a dinosaur bone. Unfortunately, all the popsicles are contaminated with pieces of wood.

Characters with 寝 as component

寝 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 寝

bedroom / dormitory / CL:間|间[jian1]
to go to sleep / to go to bed (literary)
lit. cannot rest or eat in peace (idiom) / fig. extremely worried and troubled
to die of old age / to die in one's bed at a ripe old age / (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life
to neglect sleep and forget about food (idiom) / to skip one's sleep and meals / to be completely wrapped up in one's work
to neglect sleep and food
see 廢寢忘食|废寝忘食[fei4 qin3 wang4 shi2]
to sleep on one's armor with a spear as a pillow (idiom) / to keep ready for battle at all times
tomb (of king or emperor)
to eat sb's flesh and sleep on their hide (idiom); to swear revenge on sb / implacable hatred / to have sb's guts for garters
to sleep peacefully
Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures
bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom) / the correct etiquette for a filial son during the mourning period
see 廢寢忘食|废寝忘食[fei4 qin3 wang4 shi2]

Sentences with 寝

寝 currently does not appear in any sentence.