| Kanji | 眠 |
|---|---|
| Onyomi | ミン |
| Kunyomi | ねむ.る、ねむ.い |
| Nanori | ね |
| English | sleep, die, sleepy |
| Examples | 睡眠(すいみん): sleep 居眠り(いねむり): dozing; nodding off 眠い(ねむい): sleepy; drowsy; somnolent 冬眠(とうみん): hibernation; winter sleep 眠る(ねむる): (1) to sleep (not necessarily lying down) (2) to die (3) to close one's eyes 眠たい(ねむたい): sleepy |
| JLPT Level | 3 |
| Jouyou Grade | S |
| Frequency | 1315 |
| Components | 目: eye; class; look; insight; experience; care; favor 民: people; nation; subjects |
| Number of Strokes | 10 |
| Kanji Radical | 目 |
| Radical Number | 109 |
| Radical Strokes | 5 |
| Radical Reading | め・めへん・よこめ |
| Traditional Form | (none) |
| Classification | 形声 Phonetic |
| Keyword | sleep |
| Koohii Story 1 | In an Orwellian sense, the eye watching the people never sleeps. |
| Koohii Story 2 | The little boy from The Sixth Sense couldn´t sleep because before his very eyes he saw a dead crowd of people everywhere. |
Tags: jlpt.n3, grades, kanjifreq1001-1500, kanji_body_function
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