寝耳

Japanese
Kanji in this term
寝 耳
ね
Grade: S		 みみ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
寢耳 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ねみみ [nèmímí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ne̞mʲimʲi]

Noun

寝(ね)耳(みみ) • (nemimi) 

  1. 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(しょう)々(しょう)騒(そう)々(ぞう)しいなと思(おも)っている寝(ね)耳(みみ)へ、急(きゅう)に襖(ふすま)を開(ひら)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.
  2. something heard while sleeping

Derived terms

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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