鎮

Meaning

鎮 centers on pressing down to bring calm or stability: tranquilizing agitation, suppressing unrest, or holding a place secure. The historical reference to ancient peace-preservation centers is a specific institutional application of that same idea of enforced calm.

• 鎮守ちんじゅ

  local Shinto deity; tutelary god

• 鎮圧ちんあつ

  suppression (of a riot, revolt, etc.); repression; putting down; quelling

• 鎮痛ちんつう

  pain relief; killing pain

• 鎮座ちんざ

  enshrinement (of a deity); residing (in a shrine or sacred place)

• 鎮静ちんせい

  calming down; settling down; quieting down; quietening down; subsiding; pacification; appeasement

• 重鎮じゅうちん

  leader; authority; mainstay

• 鎮火ちんか

  extinguishing; dying out (of a fire); putting out

• 鎮ちん

  a weight

• 鎮魂歌ちんこんか

  requiem

• 鎮魂ちんこん

  repose of a soul

• 文鎮ぶんちん

  paperweight

• 地鎮祭じちんさい

  ceremony for purifying a building site (before building commences); ground-breaking ceremony

• 鎮護ちんご

  guarding; protecting

• 鎮痛剤ちんつうざい

  analgesic; painkiller; sedative; tranquilizer (tranquiliser); anodyne

• 鎮定ちんてい

  suppression (e.g. of a rebellion); pacification

• 取り鎮めるとりしずめる

  to quell; to quiet

• 天名地鎮あないち

  Ana'ichi (script)

• 市鎮しちん

  town (in China)

• 文鎮化ぶんちんか

  bricking (e.g. of a smartphone)

• 暴動鎮圧ぼうどうちんあつ

  riot control

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