Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1447 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: immersed, soak, dip, steep, moisten, wet, dunk

Kunyomi: ひた.す ひた.る つ.かる

Onyomi: シン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: water

Examples

Onyomi Examples

シントウ permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.), infiltration (e.g. of ideas), spread, penetration (e.g. into a market), pervasion, permeation (of a liquid, etc.), soaking, percolation, osmosis

シンスイ inundation, submersion, flood

ボウシン watertight, waterproof

エキシン immersion, dipping, in microscopy, immersing both the objective lens and the specimen in a liquid to increase the numerical aperture, in photolithography, filling the air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid to increase the resolution

Kunyomi Examples

ひたす to soak, to dip, to steep, to immerse, to moisten, to wet

ひたる to be soaked in, to be flooded, to be submerged, to be immersed in (joy, memories, alcohol, etc.), to give oneself over to, to bask in

かる つかる to be submerged, to be soaked, to be pickled, to be well seasoned, to be totally immersed (in a condition, e.g. laziness)