Kanji1 / 7
沈 kanji
sink, be submerged, subside, be depressed, aloes
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
チンジン
Kun readings
しずむしずめる
Variant forms
沉Words with 沈
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1沈没Popularsinking; foundering; going down; submersion; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time
- N1沈黙Popularsilence; being silent; quiet; hush; reticence; inaction
- N1沈殿precipitation; deposition; settlement (e.g. of sediment)
- N1沈黙Silence (1966 novel by Shūsaku Endō)
- —撃沈Popular(attacking and) sinking (a ship); sending (a ship) to the bottom
- —沈下Popularsinking; subsidence
- —沈静Popularsettling down; quieting down; cooling down; cooling off; stillness; quiet; tranquility
- —沈滞Popularstagnation; inactivity
- —沈着Popularcomposure; calmness; self-possession; presence of mind; depositing (at the bottom); deposition; accumulation; adherence
- —浮沈Popularfloating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs
- —遠沈sediment; centrifuge
- —沈降sedimentation (e.g. of red blood cells); precipitation; settling; subsidence (e.g. of land); sinking; submerging
- —沈思contemplation; meditation
- —沈酔very drunk
- —沈痛grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive
- —沈淪sinking into obscurity; coming down in the world; being ruined; sinking deeply
- —沈渣sediment; hypostatis; sludge
- —爆沈blowing up and sinking
- —沈潜sinking into deep thought; sinking to the depths; contemplation
- —沈吟hum; meditation; painstaking elaboration on one's poem; groaning in distress