Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
deep, heighten, intensify, strengthen
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
484 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 深刻 【シンコク】 serious, severe, grave, acute
  • 深海 【シンカイ】 deep sea, depths of the sea, ocean depths
  • 以深 【イシン】 ... or deeper, ... and below
  • 海深 【カイシン】 depth of the sea

Kun reading compounds

  • 深い 【ふかい】 deep, profound, dense, thick, close (relationship), intense, strong, late
  • 深入り 【ふかいり】 getting deeply involved, going deeply into, going too far (into something)
  • 深まる 【ふかまる】 to deepen, to heighten, to intensify
  • 深める 【ふかめる】 to deepen, to heighten, to intensify

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shen1
Korean:
sim

Spanish

  • profundo
  • hondo
  • profundizar
  • profundizar en

Portuguese

  • fundo
  • aumentar
  • intensificar
  • fortalecer

French

  • profond
  • augmenter
  • intensifier
  • renforcer
258 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
342 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
325 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
552 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2606 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
593 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
690 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1341 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
536 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
545 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
121 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1212 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
636 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
385 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
480 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1339 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17687 Morohashi
524 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3206 New Nelson (John Haig)
1328 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1426 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
424 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
377 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
364 2001 Kanji
3a8.21 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
3719.4 Four corner code
1-31-28 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6df1 Unicode hex code

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