Taxonomy of meanings for 寢:　　

  • 寢 qǐn (OC: skhimʔ MC: tsʰim) 七稔切 上 廣韻：【室也卧也七稔切九 】
    • LIE DOWN
      • vt+prep+Nlie down in (a place)
      • vadNfigurative"lying down", "prostrate"CH
      • thus ceasing to do what one was doing>STOP
        • vtoNstop (arms/warfare)
      • purposeful>REST
        • nabactresting; going to rest
        • viactlie in bed; stay in bed; keep in bed
        • viacttake a rest; go to rest; go to sleep
        • vt+prep+Nrest in (sleeping place etc)
        • vtoNbe in bed because of N; keep in bed with (a flue)
        • vtoNN=placerest onself on when going to sleep; to sleep on, sleep in (a place)
        • specifically>SLEEP
          • nabstatestate of being asleep
          • vadNfor sleeping in/under (寢衣 "nightgown")
          • vadVin his sleep
          • viactgo to bed; go to bedroom for rest or sleep in a horizontal position; go to bed; spend the night; be asleep
          • viprocessfall asleep
          • vtoNrest and sleep on
          • place for> BEDROOM
            • generalised: for other purposes>ROOM
              • nliving quarters; building with bedrooms; private chambers; imposing building with inner chambers
              • TEMPLE
                • nback room behind the formal main hall in which the spirits were venerated (in private homes in the north-western corner). At the back of the miào 廟, the qǐn 寢 was a luxuriously appointed bedroom for the use of the ancestors, where these could sleep and where they were also served as if alive, according to later accounts. 漢書，馮奉世傳, 注；漢書，韋玄成傳，注 CHECK [HJG]
    • SURNAMES
      • =侵UGLY
        • vibe physically ugly?? ??? ???? ???
      • =寖GRADUALLY

        Additional information about 寢

        說文解字:

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        • TEMPLE

          1. The most common word for an ancestral temple in ancient China was miào 廟, and this word refers to the royal ancestral temple as well as to the ancestral temples of feudal lords and senior officials and even ordinary shì 士 "gentlemen, freemen". The Son of Heaven had seven of these, feudal lords had five, dàfū 大夫 had three and ordinary freemen had one. Ordinary people sacrificed in the qǐn 寢 "back room (also used as bedroom)" where the altar would traditionally occupy the north-western corner.

          2. Zōng 宗 "founding ancestor of a clan" is used by synecdoche to refer to the permanent ancestral temple where he is venerated together with his deceased successors. The word has an archaic flavour.

          3. Tiāo 祧 is a technical term for a shrine, sometimes specifically a non-permanent shrine for a distant ancestor, a shrine that could be removed and replaced by a mere altar. In the common combination zōng tiā1o 宗祧 it would appear that tiāo 祧 refers to a shrine within the larger temple complex.

          4. Cí 祠 referred originally to a small temple built near a grave where the deceased were venerated, but the term came to be used more generally to refer to a private family temple where both ancesters and other divinities of all kinds were venerated. These establishments could be very large in large clans, and very small in small clans.

          5. The case of qǐn 寢 is historically very complex. Four uses of the word must be distinguished. A. Qǐn 寢 referred in Spring and Autumn times to a part of the miào 廟 attached to it at as a back-room qǐn 寢 which was a luxuriously appointed bedroom for the use of the ancestors, where these could sleep and where they were also served as if alive (although these concrete practices are first mentioned in Han sources). B. In Warring States times the qǐn 寢 was moved to the vicinity of royal tombs to serve as a place of worship. See TOMB. C. Also, the term referred to the back room behind the formal main hall in which the spirits were venerated (in private homes in the north-western corner).

        • SLEEP

          1. Wò 臥 (ant. qǐ 起 "get up") is often used as a very general term referring to any form of sleep or rest whatsoever, but specifically the word does also refer to taking a brief nap, typically leaning on an object like a low table.

          2. Mèi 寐 (ant. jué 覺 "wake up") is to fall fast asleep.

          3. Qǐn 寢 (ant. xǐng 醒 "be wide awake") is to go to bed (typically in a designated bedroom) in order to rest or sleep, and the word does not indicate to what extent one actually does fall asleep or merely rests.

          4. Mián 眠 refers to the action of closing one's eyes in order to fall asleep anywhere, at any time, and in any position.

          5. Shuì 睡 (ant. wù 悟 "wake up") refers specifically to falling asleep, typically not in bed, and for a short time, in ancient Chinese.

          6. Zhé 蟄 is to hibernate.

        • BLANKET

          [[CONGERIES]]

          1. Bèi 被 is a general term for a blanket, and the word perhaps has something of a colloquial flavour.

          [FAMILIAR?]

          2. Qīn 衾 is probably the most common general word for a blanket, but the word also has specific uses where it emphasises the large size of a blanket. Ancient Chinese blankets were generally made with "silk-cotton, silk floss" miǎn 綿 (not identical with modern miánhuā 棉花 ) or hemp fillings. This type of blanket was important in funeral rites.

          3. Chóu 裯 refers to a single-layered thin blanket.

          4. Rèn 衽 refers to a thin blanket covering a mattress rù 褥. See MAT.

          5. Qiǎng 襁 refers to a small wrapping blanket which packs up babies to be carried on one's back.

          6. Bǎo 褓 refers generally to a small blanket used to protect a child against the cold.

          7. Qǐn yī 寢衣 refers to a relatively short blanket under which to sleep when it is not too cold, maybe even a kind of pyjamas (but note that in China as in the Middle Ages in Europe one tended to sleep naked, apparently).

          Word relations
        • Assoc: (SLEEP)臥/LIE DOWN The current general words are wò 臥 (ant. lì 立 "stand up") which can refer to lying in any position, on the side, on the back, or indeed on the stomach, and the purpose of this action is rest or sleep.