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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
- —沈金彫gold-inlaid lacquerware
- —沈下橋bridge designed to be underwater during a flood
- —沈積岩sedimentary rock
- —沈着率deposition rate; deposition fraction
- —沈殿槽precipitation tank; settling tank; sedimentation tank
- —尿沈渣urinary sediment (e.g. in urinalysis)
- —沈積物deposit; sediment; sedimentation
- —沈床園sunken garden
- —沈殿剤precipitant; precipitator; precipitating agent
- —意気消沈low spirits; depression; dejection; discouragement; despondency
- —沈思黙考being lost in deep thought
- —地盤沈下land subsidence; decline in influence
- —沈降海岸submerged shoreline
- —沈着冷静calm, cool, and collected; level and calm
- —沈魚落雁charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame
- —沈黙寡言taciturn; reticent
- —冷静沈着calm, cool, and collected; level and calm
- —沈埋工法underwater tunnel construction by sinking prefabricated box culverts
- —沈船ブイwreck buoy
- —沈水海岸submergent coastline; submerged coast; submerged shoreline