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

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  • 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

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  • 鈞 【キン】 ancient Chinese unit of weight equivalent to 30 catties (15 kg)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jun1
Korean:
gyun

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4823 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1674 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
40238 Morohashi
6229 New Nelson (John Haig)
8a4.9 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-4 SKIP code
8712.0 Four corner code
1-78-66 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
921e Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
Confucian
On:
ジュ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2162 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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  • 儒 【ジュ】 Confucianism, Confucianist, Chinese scholar
  • 儒教 【ジュキョウ】 Confucianism
  • 大儒 【タイジュ】 great Confucian (scholar), great scholar, person of great erudition
  • 坑儒 【コウジュ】 burying Confucian scholars alive

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ru2
Korean:
yu

Spanish

  • confucionismo

Portuguese

  • Confucianista

French

  • confucéen
1352 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1968 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
561 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1579 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1072 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2432 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1417 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1506 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1891 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
138 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
197 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
127 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
153 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1174 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1220 Morohashi
174 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
330 New Nelson (John Haig)
1166 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1250 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1820 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2153 2001 Kanji
2a14.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-14 SKIP code
2122.7 Four corner code
1-28-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5112 Unicode hex code