眠 (mián) means Sleep (dormant - hibernate). Below are 5 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他最近常常失 眠 。
Tā zuìjìn chángcháng shīmián.
He often cannot sleep lately.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 失眠
运动可以改善睡 眠 。
Yùndòng kěyǐ gǎishàn shuìmián.
Exercise can improve your sleep.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 改善
喝咖啡容易让人失 眠 。
Hē kāfēi róngyì ràng rén shīmián.
Drinking coffee easily causes sleeplessness.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 失眠
没有充足的睡 眠 ，健康就没有保障。
Méiyǒu chōngzú de shuìmián, jiànkāng jiù méiyǒu bǎozhàng.
Without enough sleep there is no guarantee of good health.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 保障
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From the graded readers
医生说我睡 眠 太少，让我至少休息两个星期。
yīshēng shuō wǒ shuìmián tài shǎo / shào, ràng wǒ zhìshǎo xiūxi liǎng gè xīngqī.
The doctor said I was badly short of sleep and told me to rest for at least two weeks.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Facing Pressure
Words that contain 眠
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 眠
How is 眠 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 眠 (mián, "Sleep (dormant - hibernate)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 眠 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 眠 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 眠?
The dictionary page for 眠 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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