Kanji

Level: N2 Strokes: 7

沈

Meaning in English

sink, be submerged, subside

Readings

Onyomi: チン, ジン Kunyomi: しず.む, しず.める Romaji: chin, jin / shizu.mu, shizu.meru

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沈

Translations in other languages:

Portuguese afundar, ser submerso, diminuir

Spanish hundirse, quedar sumergido, descender

Korean 가라앉다, 잠기다, 가라앉다

French couler, être submergé, s'affaisser

Italian affondare, essere sommerso, sprofondare

German sinken, untertauchen, zurückweichen

Indonesian tenggelam, terendam, mereda

★ Vietnamese chìm, bị nhấn chìm, giảm xuống

Thai จม, จมน้ำ, ทรุดตัวลง

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