寝食难安 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 寢食難安 qǐnshínánān ㄑㄧㄣˇ ㄕˊ ㄋㄢˊ ㄢ unable to sleep or eat in peace (idiom) lit. deeply worried or troubled fig. Character by character 寝(qǐn)lie down to sleep or rest 食(shí)eat 难(nán)difficult 安(ān)surname An A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0