音読み: ミン
訓読み: ねむる・ねむい
画数: 10
部首: めへん（目）
Meaning
Sleep / Rest
- Basic forms
- 眠る — sleep / base form
- 眠ります — sleeps / masu form
- 眠った — slept / ta form
- 眠って — sleeping … / te form
- 眠らない — do not sleep / negative
- 眠れば — if (one) sleeps / conditional
- Common expressions
- 深く眠る — sleep deeply
- 永遠に眠る — sleep forever (pass away)
- 目を閉じて眠った — fell asleep
- More
- 眠っている — is asleep / state
眠る（ねむる） is a godan intransitive verb. It refers to the natural act of sleeping and is also used figuratively for rest, inactivity, or death in literary contexts.
- 眠る — to sleep
- 眠い — sleepy
- 眠気 — drowsiness
- 安眠 — peaceful sleep
- 不眠 — insomnia
- 睡眠 — sleep (noun)
- 仮眠 — nap / short sleep
- 永眠 — eternal rest
- 冬眠 — hibernation
The left side, 目, shows the eye; the right, 民, gives the sound. Together they depict eyes closed and still — the state of sleep. 眠 suggests quiet rest and recovery, as in 安眠 — peaceful sleep.