午睡

Chinese

		7th earthly branch; 11 a.m.–1 p.m., noon	to sleep
trad. (午睡)		午	睡
simp. ^#(午睡)		午	睡

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wǔshuì

(Zhuyin): ㄨˇ ㄕㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁵ seoi⁶
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): n³ soi⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): gó͘-sūi / ngó͘-sūi / ngó͘-sûi

(Teochew, Peng'im): ngou² sui⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wǔshuì
  - Zhuyin: ㄨˇ ㄕㄨㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wǔshuèi
  - Wade–Giles: wu³-shui⁴
  - Yale: wǔ-shwèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuushuey
  - Palladius: ушуй (ušuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ng⁵ seoi⁶
  - Yale: ńgh seuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁵ soey⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: ng⁵ sêu⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍¹³ sɵy̯²²/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: n³ soi⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /n̩³¹ soɪ⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gó͘-sūi
  - Tâi-lô: góo-suī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: gofsui
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sui⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngó͘-sūi
  - Tâi-lô: ngóo-suī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ngofsui
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ŋɔ̃⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sui²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngó͘-sûi
  - Tâi-lô: ngóo-suî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ngofsuii
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /ŋɔ̃⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sui²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ngou² sui⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngóu sŭi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋou⁵²⁻³⁵ sui³⁵/

Verb

午睡

to take an afternoon nap; to take a nap after lunch

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 睡午覺 (“to take an afternoon nap; to take a nap after lunch”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		晝寢
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		睡午覺, 睡午睡, 午睡, 午休
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	睡晌覺, 睡晌午覺
	Taiwan	睡午覺
	Harbin	睡午覺, 睡晌覺, 睡晌午覺
	Singapore	睡午覺
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	睡晌覺
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	睡晌覺, 睡晌, 歇晌
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	睡午覺兒, 歇歇晌兒
	Wanrong	歇晌午
	Xi'an	歇晌
	Xining	睡午覺
	Xuzhou	睡午睡, 睡午覺, 睡晌午覺, 睡晌覺
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	睡晌午覺, 歇晌
	Lanzhou	睡午覺
	Ürümqi	睡午覺
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	睡午覺, 午休
	Wuhan	睡中覺
	Guiyang	睡午覺
	Guilin	睡午覺
	Guilin (Lingui)	午睡
	Liuzhou	睡午覺, 睡晌午覺, 睡晏覺 dated
	Liuzhou (Luorong)	午睡
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	睡午覺, 睡中覺 old
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	睡中覺
Cantonese	Guangzhou	瞓晏覺
	Hong Kong	瞓晏覺, 瞓晏晝覺
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou)	瞓晏晝
	Macau	瞓晏覺
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	瞓晏覺
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	瞓晏覺
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	瞓晏覺
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	瞓晏晝
	Foshan	瞓晏覺
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	瞓晏覺
	Foshan (Shunde)	瞓晏覺
	Foshan (Sanshui)	瞓晏覺
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	瞓晏晝
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	瞇晏覺
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	瞓晏覺
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	瞓晏覺
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	瞓晏晝
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	瞓晏晝
	Taishan	瞓晏晝
	Kaiping (Chikan)	瞓晏晝
	Enping (Niujiang)	瞓晏晝
	Heshan (Yayao)	瞓晏晝
	Dongguan	瞓晏晝, 瞓晏晝覺
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	瞓晏晝覺
	Nanning	睡晏覺
	Wuzhou	睏晏覺
	Yulin	睡晏
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	睡熱中覺
	Mengshan (Xihe)	睡晏覺
	Guigang (Nanjiang)	睡晏覺
	Beiliu (Tangliao)	睡晏覺
	Baise	睡晏覺
	Bobai	睡晏覺
	Lingshan	午睡
	Pubei	午睡
	Qinzhou	睡晏覺
	Beihai	睡晏覺
	Ningming	午睡
	Hengzhou	睡晏覺
	Hezhou (Pumen, Babu)	瞓晏覺
Gan	Nanchang	睏中覺
	Lichuan	歇晝
	Pingxiang	睏午覺
Hakka	Meixian	睡當晝
	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	瞓晏晝覺
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	睡晏晝覺, 午睡
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	睡中午覺
	Zhongshan (Wuguishan)	睡晏晝覺
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	睡晏晝覺
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	午睡
	Yudu	打冷覺
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	睡當晝
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	睡當晝
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	睡當晝
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	睡當晝
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	睡當晝
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	睡當晝
	Luchuan (Daqiao)	睡午覺
	Beiliu (Tang'an)	午睡
	Mashan (Pianlian)	午睡
Huizhou	Jixi	午睡
Jin	Taiyuan	歇晌
Jin	Xinzhou	歇晌
Northern Min	Jian'ou	歇晝
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	睏晝, 歇晝
Southern Min	Xiamen	睏晝, 歇晝
	Quanzhou	睏晝, 歇晝
	Zhangzhou	歇晝
	Tainan	睏晝, 歇晝, 睏中晝 GT
	Pingnan (Shangdu)	睏白日覺
	Shantou	午睡
	Haikou	瞌晝, 瞌日晝
Puxian Min	Putian	歇晝
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	歇晝
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	歇晝
	Xianyou	睏晝, 歇晝
	Xianyou (Fengting)	睏晝, 候晝
	Xianyou (Youyang)	歇晝
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	瞇日晝
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	瞇日晝覺
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	睡晏覺
	Nanning (Shajing)	睡晏覺
	Binyang (Xinqiao)	睡晏覺
Northern Pinghua	Guilin (Dahe)	睡午覺
	Guilin (Chaoyang)	午睡
	Guilin (Zhuyuan)	午睡
	Lingchuan (Tanxia)	睡午覺
Wu	Shanghai	睏中覺, 打中覺
	Danyang	睏中覺, 打中覺
	Wenzhou	午睡
	Jinhua	打午寣
Xiang	Changsha	睏中覺, 睏午覺
	Loudi	睏懶覺
	Quanzhou	睡午覺
	Guanyang (Wenshi)	睡午覺
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Noun

午睡

afternoon nap; noontime siesta; afternoon siesta

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 午覺 (“afternoon nap”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		午覺, 午睡
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	晌午覺, 晌覺
	Taiwan	午覺
	Harbin	晌午覺, 晌覺
	Singapore	午覺
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	晌覺
Central Plains Mandarin	Xuzhou	晌午覺
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	午覺
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	中覺
Cantonese	Guangzhou	晏覺
Cantonese	Hong Kong	晏覺, 晏晝覺
Wu	Danyang	中覺

Japanese

Kanji in this term
午	睡
ご Grade: 2	すい Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ごすい [gòsúí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [ɡo̞sɨi]

Noun

午(ご)睡(すい) • (gosui)

a nap in the afternoon, a siesta
- 1917, 芥川龍之介, 田端日記:
  そうして読(よ)みながら、いつか午睡(ごすい)をしてしまった。
  Sōshite yomi nagara, itsuka gosui o shite shimatta.
  At some point I drifted off while I was reading.
- 1930, 神西清, 恢復期:
  私(わたし)は快(こころよ)い午睡(ごすい)から目(め)ざめた。
  Watashi wa kokoroyoi gosui kara mezameta.
  I woke up from a pleasant nap.

Synonyms

昼(ひる)寝(ね) (hirune)

Verb

午(ご)睡(すい)する • (gosui suru) suru (stem 午(ご)睡(すい)し (gosui shi), past 午(ご)睡(すい)した (gosui shita))

to take an afternoon nap or siesta

Conjugation

Conjugation of "午睡する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	午睡し	ごすいし	gosui shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	午睡し	ごすいし	gosui shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	午睡する	ごすいする	gosui suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	午睡する	ごすいする	gosui suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	午睡すれ	ごすいすれ	gosui sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	午睡せよ¹ 午睡しろ²	ごすいせよ¹ ごすいしろ²	gosui seyo¹ gosui shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	午睡される	ごすいされる	gosui sareru
Causative	午睡させる午睡さす	ごすいさせるごすいさす	gosui saseru gosui sasu
Potential	午睡できる	ごすいできる	gosui dekiru
Volitional	午睡しよう	ごすいしよう	gosui shiyō
Negative	午睡しない	ごすいしない	gosui shinai
Negative continuative	午睡せず	ごすいせず	gosui sezu
Formal	午睡します	ごすいします	gosui shimasu
Perfective	午睡した	ごすいした	gosui shita
Conjunctive	午睡して	ごすいして	gosui shite
Hypothetical conditional	午睡すれば	ごすいすれば	gosui sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

“午睡”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
午	睡

Noun

午睡 • (osu) (hangeul 오수)

hanja form^? of 오수

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-2] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[SMK5-3] Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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