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Keyword
sink
  • be submerged
  • subside
  • be depressed
  • aloes
Frequency
#1271
Strokes
7
Grade
8
JLPT (old)
N2
Heisig
2033
Readings
チン80%
しず20%
Mnemonic
Water drops move on, swallowing the heavy stone as it slips down, and it drops to the bottom to sink in the dark.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
沈ちん黙もく
silence; being silent; quiet; hush; reticence; inaction
Noun
沈しずむ
to sink; to go under; to submerge; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to descend; to feel depressed; to become subdued; to become somber
Godan verb
沈ちん没ぼつ
sinking; foundering; going down; submersion
Noun
沈ちん下か
sinking; subsidence
Noun
撃げき沈ちん
(attacking and) sinking (a ship); sending (a ship) to the bottom
Noun
沈しずめ
sinking; submerging; sinker; weight
Noun
沈ちん黙もく
Silence (1966 novel by Shūsaku Endō)
Noun
沈ちん着ちゃく
composure; calmness; self-possession; presence of mind; depositing (at the bottom); deposition; accumulation; adherence
Noun
意い気き消しょう沈ちん
low spirits; depression; dejection; discouragement; despondency
Noun
浮ふ沈ちん
floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs
Noun
沈しずめる
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
Ichidan verb
沈ちん痛つう
grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive
Na-adjective
沈ちん静せい
settling down; quieting down; cooling down; cooling off; stillness; quiet; tranquility
Noun
沈ちん滞たい
stagnation; inactivity
Noun
轟ごう沈ちん
sinking instantly (of a ship due to a torpedo attack, bombing, etc.)
Noun
沈ちん降こう
sedimentation (e.g. of red blood cells); precipitation; settling; subsidence (e.g. of land); sinking; submerging
Noun
沈ちん殿でん
precipitation; deposition; settlement (e.g. of sediment)
Noun
浮うき沈しずみ
ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing
Noun
沈しん々しん
silent (esp. of the passing of the night); piercing (cold)
Taru-adjective
消しょう沈ちん
depression; low spirits; dejection
Noun
沈子いわ
weight (of a fishing net)
Noun
沈丁花じんちょうげ
winter daphne (Daphne odora)
Noun
沈じん香こう
agarwood; aloeswood; gharuwood; eaglewood; agalloch; agallochum; aquilaria tree; lign aloes
Noun
沈ちん金きん
gold-inlaid lacquerware (using powdered gold in etched grooves)
Noun