Memory phrase for the character: 眠

眠

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Meaning

sleep, sleepy

Pronunciation

 MIN
nemuru/i

Explanation

 Left: eye 目, right: people/nation 民 (Many buttocks 尸 with the “plus +” as a multiplier form a people.)

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

Radicals

目 eyeImage of an eye with a central pupil 口.
民 peopleButtocks in side view 尸 a “plus +” as a multiplier, since very many people (=buttocks) make up a nation.
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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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