寝

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See also: 寢
寝 U+5BDD, 寝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BDD
← 寜
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 寞 →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

寝 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 十中一水 (JLME), composition ⿱宀⿰丬𠬶)

References

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

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 寝 – see 寢 (“to sleep; to lie down; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 寢).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

Shinjitai

寝

Kyūjitai

寢
寝

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 寢)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
寝
ね
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
寢 (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese.

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of classical verb 寝 (nu, see below), modern 寝る (neru, “to sleep”).

Pronunciation

Noun

寝(ね) • (ne) 

  1. sleep, sleeping
    Synonyms: 睡眠 (suimin), 眠り (nemuri)
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
寝
ぬ
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
寢 (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese.

Alternative forms

Verb

寝(ぬ) • (nu) intransitive †nidan

  1. (archaic) to sleep
Conjugation
Classical conjugation of "寝" (ナ行下二段活用, see Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Stem forms
Irrealis (未然形) 寝 ね ne
Continuative (連用形) 寝 ね ne
Terminal (終止形) 寝 ぬ nu
Attributive (連体形) 寝る ぬる nuru
Realis (已然形) 寝れ ぬれ nure
Imperative (命令形) 寝よ ねよ neyo
Key constructions
Negative 寝ず ねず nezu
Contrasting conjunction 寝れど ぬれど nuredo
Causal conjunction 寝れば ぬれば nureba
Conditional conjunction 寝ば ねば neba
Past tense (firsthand knowledge) 寝き ねき neki
Past tense (secondhand knowledge) 寝けり ねけり nekeri
Perfect tense (conscious action) 寝つ ねつ netu
Perfect tense (natural event) 寝ぬ ねぬ nenu
Perfect-continuative tense 寝たり ねたり netari
Volitional 寝む ねむ nemu
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
寝
い
Grade: S
irregular
Alternative spelling
寢 (kyūjitai)

⟨i1⟩ → */ji/ → /i/

From Old Japanese.

Noun

寝(い) • (i) 

  1. (obsolete) sleep, sleeping
    • c. late 9th–mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari (page 5)[2]
      そのあたりの垣(かき)にも、家(いへ)の門(もん)にも、をる人(ひと)だにたはやすく見(み)るまじき物(もの)を、夜(よ)るはやすき寝(い)も寝(ね)ず、闇(やみ)の夜(よ)に出(いで)て、穴(あな)をくじり、かひ間見(まみ)、まどひあへり。
      Sono atari no kaki ni mo, ie no mon ni mo, oru hito dani tawayasuku miru majiki mono o, yoru hayasuki i mo nezu, yami no yo ni idete, ana o kujiri, kaimami, madoiaeri.
      (please add an English translation of this example)
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
寝
しん
Grade: S
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
寢 (kyūjitai)

/sim/ → /simʉ/ → /ɕimʉ/ → /ɕiɴ/

From Middle Chinese 寢 (MC tshimX).

Pronunciation

Noun

寝(しん) • (shin) 

  1. sleep, sleeping
Derived terms

Affix

寝(しん) • (shin) 

  1. sleep, sleeping
  2. inner parlor/parlour, living room
Derived terms
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Horiuchi, Hideaki with Ken Akiyama (1997) Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

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

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