Kanji1 / 18
鎮 kanji
tranquilize, ancient peace-preservation centers
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 18
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
チン
Kun readings
しずめるしずまるおさえ
Variant forms
鎭Words with 鎮
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —重鎮Popularleader; authority; mainstay
- —鎮圧Popularsuppression (of a riot, revolt, etc.); repression; putting down; quelling
- —鎮魂Popularrepose of a soul; ceremony for the repose of a departed soul
- —鎮守Popularlocal Shinto deity; tutelary god
- —鎮痛剤Popularanalgesic; painkiller; sedative; tranquilizer (tranquiliser); anodyne
- —鎮a weight; temple supervisor; town (of China)
- —鎮火extinguishing; dying out (of a fire); putting out
- —鎮座enshrinement (of a deity); residing (in a shrine or sacred place); sitting prominently (in a place); being plunked down; being planted (in a spot)
- —鎮静calming down; settling down; quieting down; quietening down; subsiding; pacification; appeasement; sedation
- —文鎮paperweight
- —鎮定suppression (e.g. of a rebellion); pacification
- —鎮台garrison (in Meiji era)
- —鎮撫pacification; placating
- —鎮護guarding; protecting
- —風鎮hanging-scroll weight
- —鎮祭religious ceremony (to appease the gods)
- —鎮子ornamental weights used to keep curtains and the like from blowing around in the wind
- —鎮痛pain relief; killing pain
- —鎮痙spasmolysis; spasmolytic; antispasmodic; anticonvulsive
- —鎮星Saturn (planet)