Hanja Analyzer
沈

沈 — chim, sim

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
잠길 침, 성(姓) 심
Romanization
chim, sim
English
sink, submerge; addicted to; surname
Mandarin
shěn
Japanese on'yomi
チン, シン, ジン, タン, ドン
Japanese kun'yomi
しず.む しず.める
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#1,271 of 2,500
Strokes
7
Variant forms
沉
Radical
水 (85, 4 residual)
Unicode
U+6C88

Parts that make up 沈

  • 氵 물 수variant of 水 흐르는 물줄기물·액체와 관련된 것, 씻고 적시고 흐르는 일
  • 冘 머뭇거릴 유, 갈 유 어깨에 짐을 멘 사람‘침·유’ 계열의 소리

How 沈 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 沈 as a ideographic compound involving 水, 羊.

Korean example words with 沈

  • 격침擊沈 Korean gloss: 배를 공격하여 가라앉힘
  • 불침不沈 Korean gloss: 가라앉지 않거나 잠기지 않음
  • 침우沈憂 Korean gloss: 마음에 쌓여 있는 깊은 근심
  • 침음沈吟 Korean gloss: 근심에 잠겨 신음함. 또는 그런 소리
  • 침륜沈淪 Korean gloss: 재산이나 권세가 없어지고 보잘것없이 됨
  • 침혹沈惑 Korean gloss: 무엇을 몹시 좋아하여 정신을 잃고 거기에 빠짐
  • 수침되다水沈 Korean gloss: 물에 가라앉다
  • 침몰하다沈沒 Korean gloss: 물속에 가라앉다
  • 침후하다沈厚 Korean gloss: 침착하고 중후하다
  • 침은하다沈隱 Korean gloss: 물에 가라앉아 숨다
  • 침지하다沈漬 Korean gloss: 액체에 담가 적시다
  • 음침하다陰沈 Korean gloss: 분위기가 어두컴컴하고 스산하다

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 沈

  • 沈黙ちんもく silence; being silent; quiet
  • 沈下ちんか sinking; subsidence
  • 沈没ちんぼつ sinking; foundering; going down
  • 沈着ちんちゃく composure; calmness; self-possession
  • 浮沈ふちん floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow
  • 沈痛ちんつう grave; sad; mournful
  • 沈滞ちんたい stagnation; inactivity
  • 沈静ちんせい settling down; quieting down; cooling down
  • 沈降ちんこう sedimentation (e.g. of red blood cells); precipitation; settling
  • 沈むしずむ to sink; to go under; to submerge
  • 意気消沈いきしょうちん low spirits; depression; dejection
  • 撃沈げきちん (attacking and) sinking (a ship); sending (a ship) to the bottom

Other hanja read “침”

Other hanja with radical 水

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