春眠暁を覚えず

Japanese
Kanji in this term
春 眠 暁 覚
しゅん
Grade: 2		 みん
Grade: S		 あかつき
Grade: S		 おぼ
Grade: 4
on’yomi kan’yōon kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
春眠曉を覺えず (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From the first line of the poem 春暁 (Shungyō, “Spring Dawn”) by Meng Haoran, a calque of Literary Chinese 春眠不覺曉.

Literally “sleeping in the springtime, unaware of the dawn”.

Phrase

春(しゅん)眠(みん)暁(あかつき)を覚(おぼ)えず • (shunmin akatsuki o oboezu) 

  1. sleeping in late on a comfortable spring day
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