沉

See also: 沈 and 瀋

Translingual

Han character

沉 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水月竹弓 (EBHN) or 水月竹山 (EBHU), four-corner 3711₀, composition ⿰氵冗(GJKV) or ⿰氵⿱冖儿(HT))

Derived characters

• 𩂸, 𫪌

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 610, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17190
• Dae Jaweon: page 1003, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1574, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6C89

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Chinese

trad.		沉
simp. #		沉
alternative forms		沈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
冘	*lu, *lum
抌	*lu, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *loʔ
狖	*lus
貁	*lus
耽	*ʔl'uːm
眈	*ʔl'uːm, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *l'uːm
酖	*ʔl'uːm
妉	*ʔl'uːm
黕	*ʔl'uːmʔ
衴	*ʔl'uːmʔ
瓭	*ʔl'uːmʔ
馾	*ʔl'uːms
髧	*l'uːmʔ
紞	*ʔl'oːmʔ
鈂	*zlum, *l'um
沈	*l'um, *l'ums, *hljumʔ
沉	*l'um
枕	*l'um, *ʔljumʔ, *ʔljums
莐	*l'um
霃	*l'um
鴆	*l'ums
訦	*ɦljum, *ɦljumʔ
忱	*ɦljum
邥	*hljumʔ
魫	*hljumʔ

Variant of 沈.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 沉

1. to sink; to submerge (into water)
2. to fall; to sink; to subside
3. to settle; to make sink
4. to suppress; to stifle; to neglect
5. to be neglected
6. to indulge in; to be given to
7. to hide; to be hidden
8. heavy; weighty
9. dark; gloomy
10. deep; profound
11. long (duration); prolonged; lengthy
12. deeply; profoundly

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

沉

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しん (shin); じん (jin)
• Kan-on: しん (shin); ちん (chin)
• Kun: しずむ (shizumu, 沉む); しずめる (shizumeru, 沉める)

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Korean

Hanja

沉 • (chim, sim) (hangeul 침, 심, revised chim, sim, McCune–Reischauer ch'im, sim, Yale chim, sim)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 沉 (tròm, chằm, chìm, đắm, đẫm, ngằm, ngầm, trằm, trầm, đẵm)

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