寝 — lie down, sleep, rest

ねる寝 lie down

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes

U+5BDD Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1034 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1233 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

lie down
sleep
rest
bed
remain unsold

word

ね ne Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

寝(ね) る neru to sleep 昼(ひる) 寝(ね) hirune nap 寝(ね) 不(ぶ) 足(そく) nebusoku lack of sleep

しん shin On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

就(しゅう) 寝(しん) shuushin going to bed 寝(しん) 室(しつ) shinshitsu bedroom

Appears in idioms

果報は寝て待て諺

Wait for good news while sleeping

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宀 roof

丬 split wood (left form)

彐 snout

冖 cover

また又 or, again #29

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#40 宀 roof