Memory phrase for the Kanji: 眠

眠

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Meaning sleep, sleepy

Pronunciation

MIN
nemuru/i

Explanation

Left: eye 目, right: people/nation 民 (buttock from the side 尸, sabre 弋)

Mnemonic
 
(Inertia of the masses) The eyes of the people are sleepy.

Radicals

目 eye
民 people
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 Vocabulary

冬眠 とうみん  hibernation, winter sleep
浅い眠り あさいねむり  light sleep
居眠り いねむり  dozing, nodding off
眠い ねむい   sleepy, drowsy
眠たい ねむたい  sleepy
眠る ねむる  to sleep
睡眠 すいみん  sleep

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