Mnemonic
Closing your eye is what people do when sleep calls. Picture a stadium full of people — one by one, every eye shuts, heads nod, and a great wave of sleep rolls across them all like a spell.
Additional thoughts
Eye + People = Sleep. Visualize a contagious wave of drowsiness sweeping through a crowd, every single eye closing in sequence like dominoes falling.Quick recall
Eyes of people shut as sleep sweeps the crowd.Details
The keyword for 眠 is sleep. This kanji refers to the act of sleeping or falling asleep, representing the state in which one closes one's eyes and rests. It conveys the natural, everyday process of slumber and can also extend to the idea of lying dormant or inactive, as when something remains unused or undiscovered for a long period of time.
- On'yomi
- みん
- Kun'yomi
- ねむ.る、ねむ.い