Illustration: Dawn light enters a small apartment where a parent remains sitting beside a baby's cot, eyes unmistakably open despite heavy eyelids and deep fatigue. Their hand gently rocks the cot, and their clothes are still those worn the previous evening.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

一いっ睡すい

issui

a wink of sleep

Most often used in 一睡もしない, meaning not to sleep at all. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは一睡いっすいもしなかった。

    He did not sleep a wink.

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  2. ゆうべは一睡いっすいもしなかった。

    Last night I did not get a wink of sleep.

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  3. 私わたしは昨晩さくばん一睡いっすいもしなかった。

    I didn’t sleep a wink last night.

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Kanji in 一睡

  • 一oneOnイチ・イツKunひと-・ひとつ
  • 睡drowsy; sleepOnスイKunねむる・ねむい

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