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寝息ねいき (neiki)

breathing of a sleeping person

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Meaning

寝息 (ねいき, neiki) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “breathing of a sleeping person”.

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Example sentences 4

子供こどもの寝息ねいきが聞きこえます

I can hear the child breathing as he/she sleeps.

妻の静かな寝息が聞こえた.

I heard my wife sleeping, breathing softly.

彼が身じろぎもせず、静かに寝息を立てた

He slept motionlessly and quietly.

起おきているときはあれだけにぎやかだった子こどもたちも、今いまはすやすやと静しずかな寝息ねいきを立たてている。

The kids that had been so lively when they were awake are now silently sleeping soundly.

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