寝

See also 寢

Translingual

Han character

寝 (radical 40 宀+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 十中一水 (JLME))

1. sleep, rest
2. bed chamber

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 290, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7278
• Dae Jaweon: page 574, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 946, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5BDD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

寝 (traditional 寢, Yale cham2)

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA: /i/

Noun

寝 (hiragana い, romaji i)

1. sleep
   • c. 890: Taketori Monogatari (page 5)

     そのあたりの垣にも、家の門にも、をる人だにたはやすく見るまじき物を、夜るはやすき寝（い）も寝（ね）ず、闇の夜に出て、穴をくじり、かひ間見、まとひあへり。

Derived terms

• 朝寝 (asai)
• 夢 (ime)
• 寝ぬ (inu)
• 長寝, 長眠 (nagai)
• 熟寝 (umai)
• 安寝 (yasai)
• 夜寝 (yoi)

See also

• 眠る (nemuru)
• 寝る (neru)
• 寝 (nu)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nu/

Verb

寝 (intransitive, hiragana ぬ, romaji nu)

1. to sleep

Derived terms

• 寝ぬ (inu)
• 寝る (neru)

Etymology 3

Kanji

寝 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しん (shin)
• Kun: ね(ne), ねる (neru), みたまや (mitamaya), やめる (yameru)

Compounds

寝室 寝台 寝殿 不寝番

寝覚め 寝ずの番 寝相 寝床 寝坊

朝寝 昼寝

References

• 1997 May 18, Hideaki Horiuchi; Ken Akiyama, Taketori Monogatari , Ise Monogatari, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240017-4:

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Korean

Hanja

寝 (hangeul 침, revised chim, McCune-Reischauer ch'im)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

寝 (traditional 寢, pinyin lóu (lou2), qǐn (qin3), Wade-Giles lou², ch'in³)