Keyword
sink
Info
FrequencyTop 700-800
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 4
Heisig2033
Readings
ちん
(55%)
しず
(44%)
Composed of
water drops
to move on
Used in vocabulary (99 in total)
silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction
to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
to sink (into); to get depressed
grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive
to break the silence; to break one's silence
sending a ship to the bottom; sinking (a ship); to sink a ship
to sink (into one's seat, etc.); to leap to one's death (by drowning); to be reduced to (esp. working as a prostitute)
depressed in spirits; dispirited; disheartened; rejection
sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time
calm, cool, and collected; level and calm
calming down; quieting down
to sink (into); to get depressed
depression; low spirits; dejection
melancholy; gloom; depression
precipitation; deposition; settlement (e.g. of sediment)
settling or depositing (at the bottom of something); deposition; pigmentation; composure; calmness
ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing
contemplation; meditation
sinking a ship instantly
sinking; subsidence
floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs
calm, cool, and collected; level and calm
being lost in deep thought
stillness; tranquility; tranquillity; dullness
stagnation; inactivity
sedimentation; subsidence; precipitation; sinking; settling; submerging
sinking; submerging; sinker; weight
land subsidence; decline in influence
sinking into deep thought; sinking to the depths; contemplation
precipitation; deposition; settlement (e.g. of sediment)
to be depressed
calm; composed; collected; silently (of the passing of the night); quietly
winter daphne (Daphne odora)
unsinkable
low spirits; depressed heart
blowing up and sinking
depression; low spirits; dejection
floating up and sinking down; rising and falling
to abandon oneself to grief
sediment; deposit; precipitate; sludge; lees
agarwood; aloeswood; gharuwood; aquilaria tree; lign aloes
scuttling one's own boat
to be knocked out; to be overwhelmed; to be flabbergasted; to be thrown for a loop
hum; meditation; painstaking elaboration on one's poem; groaning in distress
composed courage
unsinkable battleship
sinking into obscurity; being ruined
depressed in spirits; dispirited; disheartened; rejection
silent (esp. of the passing of the night); piercing (cold)
sedimentation (rate) of blood cells
being immersed in water; being drowned; being infatuated; being dazed; being blinded by
charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (lit.) (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame
sediment; deposit; precipitate; sludge; lees
sediment; hypostatis; sludge
bridge designed to be underwater during a flood
gold-inlaid lacquerware (using powdered gold in etched grooves)
sedimentation; deposition
erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR
charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame
to abandon oneself to grief
silent (esp. of the passing of the night); piercing (cold)
gold-inlaid lacquerware
precipitation tank; settling tank; sedimentation tank
there are exceptions to every rule; (lit.) rocks will flow and leaves will sink
decline of energy and vigour (vigor)
having few faults as well as few virtues; (lit.) not burning agarwood (incense); not passing wind
kimchi; kimchee; spicy Korean pickled cabbage; Korea; Korean
gold-inlaid lacquerware
having few faults as well as few virtues; (lit.) not burning agarwood (incense); not passing wind
sediment; centrifuge
underwater tunnel construction by sinking prefabricated box culverts
deposition rate; deposition fraction
weight (of a fishing net)
weight (of a fishing net); sinker (on a fishing line)
submergent coastline; submerged coast; submerged shoreline
submerged plant; submerged vegetation
urinary sediment (e.g. in urinalysis)
sinking of the South Korean navy ship Cheonan (allegedly by a North Korean torpedo; March 26, 2010)
silent trade; dumb barter; depot trade
deposit; sediment; sedimentation
life has its ups and downs; he who falls today may rise tomorrow
Examples (88 in total)
There followed a prolonged silence.
There followed a long silence.
There was another silence.