寝ね息いき

Meanings

Usage patterns

• 〈人ひと〉の寝ね息いきが聞きこえるto hear someone's sleeping breath

  隣となりの部屋へやから子こ供どもの寝ね息いきが聞きこえてきた。

  I could hear my child's breathing from the next room.

• 静しずかな寝ね息いきa soft, peaceful sleeping breath

  母はは親おやは静しずかな寝ね息いきに耳みみを澄すませた。

  The mother listened closely to the soft sound of her child's sleeping breath.

• 寝ね息いきが乱みだれるsomeone's sleeping breath becomes irregular

  熱ねつがあるのか、子こ供どもの寝ね息いきが乱みだれていた。

  Maybe because of a fever, the child's breathing during sleep was irregular.

Expressions

• 寝ね息いきを立たてるbreathe while sleeping; make sleeping sounds
• 寝ね息いきをうかがうcheck if someone is asleep; listen for sleeping breath · do something bad while someone sleeps