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
- —色素沈着pigmentation
- —沈水植物submerged plant; submerged vegetation
- —綿状沈殿flocculent precipitate
- —沈黙交易silent trade; dumb barter; depot trade
- —萎靡沈滞decline of energy and vigour (vigor)
- —不沈空母unsinkable aircraft carrier
- —積羽沈舟small things in sufficient quantity can have a large influence; a large pile of feathers sinks a ship
- —沈黙の春Silent Spring (book by Rachel Carson, 1962)
- —日本沈没Japan Sinks (1973 novel by Sakyo Komatsu)
- —沈黙を破るto break the silence; to break one's silence
- —石綿沈着症asbestosis
- —天安沈没事件sinking of the South Korean navy ship Cheonan (allegedly by a North Korean torpedo; March 26, 2010)
- —沈黙の殺人者silent killer
- —赤血球沈降速度erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR
- —沈船ダイビングwreck diving
- —沈黙は金雄弁は銀speech is silver, silence is golden
- —沈船捜索救助計画Deep Submergence Systems Project; DSSP
- —沈魚落雁閉月羞花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
- —雄弁は銀、沈黙は金speech is silver, silence is golden
- —沈澱precipitation; deposition; settlement (e.g. of sediment)