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
- —血沈sedimentation (rate) of blood cells
- —自沈scuttling one's own boat
- —消沈depression; low spirits; dejection
- —沈勇composed courage; calm courage
- —沈積sedimentation; deposition
- —沈鬱melancholy; gloom; depression
- —赤沈erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR
- —轟沈sinking instantly (of a ship due to a torpedo attack, bombing, etc.)
- —沈砂grit
- —沈金gold-inlaid lacquerware (using powdered gold in etched grooves)
- —沈子weight (of a fishing net); sinker (on a fishing line)
- —不沈unsinkable
- —沈溺being immersed in water; being drowned; being infatuated; being dazed; being blinded by
- —沈泥silt
- —深沈calm; composed; collected; self-possessed; silently (of the passing of the night); quietly
- —沈船sunken ship; submerged vessel
- —共沈coprecipitation
- —沈没船sunken ship
- —沈殿物sediment; deposit; precipitate; sludge; lees
- —不沈艦unsinkable battleship