radical 目

13 strokes

eye 目 (93) + droop 垂 (409a) = sleep 睡

睡觉 (405) shuìjiào sleep; go to bed

[睡着 (205) shuìzháo to fall asleep]

His eyes began to droop and all he wanted to do was sleep. / Fortunately the ghostly dwarf (guarding the emperor’s palace) was wearing shades, so nobody could see his eyes close.

Notice how this differs from 重 (Character 407 above), and be careful with the stroke order.

The two small vertical strokes on either side are joined on at the top and bottom in some typefaces (this is shown in the large character here) and not in others (as shown in the stroke-order diagrams).