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Japanese
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| 寢耳 (kyūjitai)
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Pronunciation
Noun
寝耳 • (nemimi)
- the ears of someone sleeping
1934–1935, 中里介山, 大菩薩峠 37 恐山の巻, 新字新仮名 edition, 青空文庫:
- 少々騒々しいなと思っている寝耳へ、急に襖を開いておとなうものがありました。
- Shōshō sōzōshii na to omotte iru nemimi e, kyū ni fusuma o hiraite otonau mono ga arimashita.
- Someone suddenly opened the fusuma and visited my sleeping ears, which were thinking something was a little raucous.
- something heard while sleeping
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