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The kanji 寝: meaning, readings and stroke order
寝
- Meaning
- sleep, lie down
- On reading
- シン shin
- Kun reading
- ね（る） neru、ね（かす） nekasu
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 宀 roof
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
- Old form
- 寢
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- ngủ, nằm (tẩm)
- Japanese
- ねる。よこに なる。
- Korean
- 자다, 눕다 (침)
- Chinese
- 睡觉、躺
Readings, words and example sentences
シン shin · on reading · less common
寝室
bedroom
二階に 寝室が あります。
There is a bedroom on the second floor.
ね（る） neru · kun reading
寝る
to sleep, to go to bed
今日は 早く 寝ます。
I'm going to bed early today.
ね（かす） nekasu · kun reading · less common
寝かす
to put to sleep
赤ちゃんを 寝かします。
I put the baby to sleep.
Practise writing 寝 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 寝 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 7 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.