沈

See also: 沉, 瀋, and 渖

Translingual

Etymology

沈, meaning "to sink", is pronounced shen. 沈 is also a simplification of 瀋, meaning "juice" or "liquid".

Han character

沈 (radical 85 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水中月山 (ELBU), four-corner 3411₂)

1. sink, submerge
2. addicted to
3. used as a surname
4. juice, liquid, water, leak, pour
5. profound, deep

References

• KangXi: page 610, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17189
• Dae Jaweon: page 1002, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1572, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6C88

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Cantonese

Hanzi

沈 (traditional 瀋, Yale sam2)

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Japanese

Kanji

沈

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. sink
2. be submerged
3. subside
4. be depressed
5. aloes

Readings

• Goon: しん (shin), じん (jin)
• Kan’on: しん (shin), ちん (chin)
• Kun: しずむ (shizumu), しずめる (shizumeru)

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Korean

Hanja

沈 (chim, sim) (hangeul 침, 심, revised chim, im, McCune-Reischauer ch'im, sim, Yale chim, sim)

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Mandarin

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 沈 – see 瀋. (This term, 沈, is the simplified form of 瀋.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 沈 – see 沉. (This term, 沈, is a variant form of 沉.)

Hanzi

沈 (traditional 瀋, Pinyin shěn (shen3), Wade-Giles shen³), chén

1. Shěn, a state during the Zhou dynasty located in modern-day Henan
2. A surname​.