Kanji1 / 10
眠 kanji
sleep, die, sleepy
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ミン
Kun readings
ねむるねむい
Words with 眠
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —休眠状態dormant state; torpor; non-operating state; idling
- —入眠障害sleep induction disorder; sleep onset insomnia
- —睡眠麻痺sleep paralysis
- —嗜眠性脳炎encephalitis lethargica
- —睡眠導入剤sleep inducing drug
- —仮眠を取るto take a nap; to catch forty winks; to catch some Z's
- —睡眠を取るto get sleep; to sleep
- —後催眠暗示posthypnotic suggestion
- —入眠時幻覚hypnagogic hallucination
- —睡眠を妨げるto disturb one's sleep
- —睡眠パターンsleep pattern
- —入眠時レム期sleep onset REM period; SOREMP
- —ノンレム睡眠non-REM sleep
- —短時間睡眠者short sleeper; person who does not need much sleep
- —睡眠時遊行症sleepwalking; somnambulism
- —特発性過眠症idiopathic hypersomnia
- —国立睡眠財団National Sleep Foundation
- —日本睡眠学会Japanese Society of Sleep Research; JSSR
- —春眠暁を覚えずin spring one sleeps a sleep that knows no dawn; in spring one sleeps like a log
- —睡眠ポリグラフpolysomnogram