Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N2

1271 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: sink, be submerged, subside, be depressed, aloes

Kunyomi: しず.む しず.める

Onyomi: チン ジン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: さんずい

Meaning: water

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

着冷静な(ちんちゃくれいせいな)   calm, composed, cool

黙する(ちんもくする)   be silent

没する(ちんぼつする)   sink, founder, go to the bottom

下する(ちんかする)   sink, subside

滞する(ちんたいする)   stagnate, be inactive

静する(ちんせいする)   die down, settle down

思黙考する(ちんしもっこうする)   be sunk in deep thought

む(しずむ)   sink, feel depressed [v.i.]

める(しずめる)   sink, submerge [v.t.]

Onyomi Examples

チンチャク settling or depositing (at the bottom of something), deposition, pigmentation, composure, calmness

チンカ sinking, subsidence

フチン floating and sinking, rise and fall, ebb and flow, ups and downs

ゲキチン sending a ship to the bottom, sinking (a ship), to sink a ship

ジンコウ agarwood, aloeswood, gharuwood, eaglewood, agalloch, agallochum, aquilaria tree, lign aloes

香も焚かず屁も放らず ジンコウモタカズヘモヒラズ having few faults as well as few virtues, not burning agarwood (incense); not passing wind

Kunyomi Examples

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

む瀬あれば浮かぶ瀬あり しずむせあればうかぶせあり life has its ups and downs, he who falls today may rise tomorrow

める 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)