qǐn
noun #28,851

Meanings

  1. 1 bedroom
  2. 2 to lie down to rest
  3. 3 imperial tomb

Examples

HSK 7-9
Tā zài shūfáng dúshū zhì shēnyè, fāng cái rù qǐn.
He read in the study until late at night before finally going to bed.
HSK 7-9
Huáng líng zhōng yǒu zhuānmén gōngfèng língwèi de qǐn diàn.
Imperial tombs contain a dedicated hall for enshrining the spirit tablet.

Tips

register
is a literary/classical character. In everyday speech, 卧室 or 睡觉 are used instead. appears in formal compounds: 寝室 (dormitory), 就寝 (to retire for the night).

Components

radical
mián
roof
Roof radical on top fixes the location: happens indoors, specifically in a sleeping chamber. The roof anchors a whole house-and-room family - home, room, peace (woman under roof), 宿 lodge.
semantic
qiáng
bed (vertical form)
Left interior is a stylised bed seen sideways - the right half of 's etymological . Placed under a roof and beside a sweeping-hand action, it gives the literal scene: a bed inside the bedchamber. Same component anchors bed itself.
semantic
snout / hand-with-broom (here: hand)
Upper-right interior is a stylised hand. Together with and below, the right half of pictures a person sweeping or tidying the bedchamber - the cleaning-up that precedes lying down to rest.
semantic
cover
Middle-right cover stroke sits between hand and another hand, suggesting the bedclothes or canopy being smoothed flat. The cover radical also appears in , - anything tucked under something.
semantic
yòu
again; right hand
Lower-right shows a second hand - the right-hand pictogram. The redoubled hand-imagery in underscores the physical action of preparing the bed before sleep, distinguishing (formal, classical 'retire to bed') from plain 'sleep'.

Stroke Order

qǐn