沈

Meaning

沈 centers on moving downward into a medium: sinking in water, submerging, or subsiding. The emotional sense of being depressed is a natural extension of sinking down, and aloes refers to a plant used in sinking incense.

• 沈むしずむ
  N3

  to sink; to go under; to submerge

• 沈黙ちんもく
  N1

  silence; being silent; quiet; hush

• 沈めるしずめる
  N1

  to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge

• 沈没ちんぼつ
  N1

  sinking; foundering; going down; submersion

• 撃沈げきちん

  (attacking and) sinking (a ship); sending (a ship) to the bottom

• 沈着ちんちゃく

  composure; calmness; self-possession; presence of mind

• 沈静ちんせい

  settling down; quieting down; cooling down; cooling off

• 沈下ちんか

  sinking; subsidence

• 轟沈ごうちん

  sinking instantly (of a ship due to a torpedo attack, bombing, etc.)

• 沈殿ちんでん
  N1

  precipitation; deposition; settlement (e.g. of sediment)

• 浮き沈みうきしずみ

  ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing

• 消沈しょうちん

  depression; low spirits; dejection

• 沈降ちんこう

  sedimentation (e.g. of red blood cells); precipitation; settling

• 浮沈ふちん

  floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs

• 沈丁花じんちょうげ

  winter daphne (Daphne odora)

• 沈痛ちんつう

  grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive

• 沈香じんこう

  agarwood; aloeswood; gharuwood; eaglewood; agalloch; agallochum

• 沈滞ちんたい

  stagnation; inactivity

• 意気消沈いきしょうちん

  low spirits; depression; dejection; discouragement; despondency

• マットに沈むマットにしずむ

  to be knocked out; to be overwhelmed; to be flabbergasted; to be thrown for a loop

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