Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
Variants:
sink, be submerged, subside, be depressed, aloes
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N2
1271 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 沈着 【チンチャク】 composure, calmness, self-possession, presence of mind, depositing (at the bottom), deposition, accumulation, adherence
  • 沈下 【チンカ】 sinking, subsidence
  • 浮沈 【フチン】 floating and sinking, rise and fall, ebb and flow, ups and downs
  • 撃沈 【ゲキチン】 (attacking and) sinking (a ship), sending (a ship) to the bottom
  • 沈香 【ジンコウ】 agarwood, aloeswood, gharuwood, eaglewood, agalloch, agallochum, aquilaria tree, lign aloes
  • 沈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

Kun reading compounds

  • 沈む 【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
  • 沈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
  • 沈める 【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)

Readings

Japanese names:
しん
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chen2, shen3
Korean:
chim, sim

Spanish

  • hundido
  • sumergido
  • deprimido
  • desanimado
  • hundirse
  • sumergirse
  • deprimirse
  • desanimarse

Portuguese

  • afundar
  • submergir
  • abaixar
  • deprimir-se
  • aloés

French

  • couler
  • être submergé
  • s'enfoncer
  • être déprimé
  • aloès
1601 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1319 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2508 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1097 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
668 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
399 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
936 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
964 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1129 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1166 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
306 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
195 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
231 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1906 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17189 Morohashi
261 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3069 New Nelson (John Haig)
1888 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2033 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1139 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
357 2001 Kanji
3a4.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
3411.2 Four corner code
1-36-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6c88 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
grain
Parts:
volume, product (x*y), acreage, contents, pile up, stack, load, amass
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
541 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 積 【セキ】 product, volume, area
  • 積載 【セキサイ】 loading, carrying
  • 作付面積 【サクヅケメンセキ】 planted area
  • 蓄積 【チクセキ】 accumulation, accumulate, store

Kun reading compounds

  • 積む 【つむ】 to pile up, to stack, to load (car, ship, etc.), to pack, to acquire, to accumulate
  • 積もる 【つもる】 to pile up, to accumulate, to estimate
  • 積もり 【つもり】 intention, plan, purpose, expectation, belief, assumption, thought, conviction, estimate, estimation, calculation
  • 積り書 【つもりがき】 written estimate
  • お見積もり 【おみつもり】 (price) quotation, quote
  • 相見積もり 【あいみつもり】 (obtaining) quotes from several companies, (fielding) competitive bids, competitive bidding

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 さか、 しゃこ、 ずみ、 つみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ji1
Korean:
jeog, ja

Spanish

  • amontonar
  • apilar
  • amplitud
  • producto (matemáticas)

Portuguese

  • volume
  • produto (x*y)
  • terras
  • comteúdos
  • empilhar
  • pilha
  • carga
  • acumular

French

  • volume
  • produit (x*y)
  • aire
  • contenu
  • entasser
  • empiler
  • charger
  • amasser
445 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
550 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
521 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
506 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3306 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
766 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
784 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2493 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
656 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
667 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
886 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1448 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1579 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
835 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1142 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1557 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25266 Morohashi
1236 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4176 New Nelson (John Haig)
1543 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1663 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
632 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2261 2001 Kanji
5d11.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-11 SKIP code
2598.6 Four corner code
1-32-49 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a4d Unicode hex code