为什么睡觉一直用zzz来代表？起源于哪？ - 知乎 7 个回答 默认排序 知乎用户 just google for it: 按维基百科“Z”词条说法： Z is used in writing to represent the act of sleeping (sometimes as 'zzz' or 'zzzz') It is used because closed-mouth human snoring often sounds like the pronunciation of the letter
How did the letter Z come to be associated with sleeping snoring? First of all, zzzz (or z-z-z-z) is sound of snoring, from at least 1918 (Sometimes "a tiny saw cutting through a log" [1948] would be used, and both the snore and saw would make the same z-z-z-z sound ) Over time, this became associated with sleep in general, but most comic reference books (e g 2006's KA-BOOM!
为什么 「Zzz……」表示睡着了？ - 知乎 西方漫画常以zzz表示画中人物在睡觉。有人说z是出于doze（打瞌睡）、snooze（小睡） 二字，也有人说z是模拟鼾声。无论如何，俚语常以zizz指「睡觉」，作名词、动词都可以， 例如： (1) He felt refreshed after a good zizz （他好好睡了一觉之后，精神抖擞） (2) He left while I was zizzing （他在我睡觉的时候离开
Is “zzzzz” the most common spelling to represent a person sleeping? For what it's worth, I don't know that the number of z's really means anything – a string of z's connotes sleeping, and nothing makes 4 z's any more "correct" than 5 or 3 I'd bet that simple aesthetics often plays a role in how many z's a writer chooses to use, though it may be interesting to know that my Mac spell checker accepts zzz and zzzz, but puts a red squiggle underneath zz and