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Mythic Mandarin

失眠 (shī mián): meaning and stroke order

失眠 (shī mián) means to suffer from insomnia.

失眠

Simplified
失眠
Traditional
失眠 (same form)
Pinyin
shī mián

Stroke order of 失眠

失

  • shī to lose; to miss
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

眠

  • mián to sleep; to hibernate
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 失眠

  1. shī mián
    • to suffer from insomnia

Radicals of the characters

失
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 5 strokes
眠
Radical 目 (Kangxi radical 109) · 10 strokes · 目 on the left, 民 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).