Kanji Details:
- 沈
- Frequency:1271
- Kun: しず.む, しず.める
- On: チン, ジン
- Meaning: sink, be submerged, subside, be depressed, aloes
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Examples:
Word Reading Meaning 沈黙 ちんもく silence, reticence 沈下 ちんか sinking, subsidence 沈着 ちんちゃく settling or depositing (at the bottom of something), deposition, pigmentation; composure, calmness 沈没 ちんぼつ sinking, foundering 浮沈 ふちん floating and sinking, rise and fall, ebb and flow, ups and downs 沈痛 ちんつう grave, sad, mournful, sorrowful, pensive 沈滞 ちんたい stagnation, inactivity 沈静 ちんせい stillness, tranquility, tranquillity, dullness 沈む しずむ to sink, to feel depressed 沈降 ちんこう precipitate, settle