沈

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

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)

Readings

• On: ちん (chin), じん (jin), しん (shin)
• Kun: しずむ (shizumu), しずめる (shizumeru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

沈 (traditional 瀋, pinyin shěn (shen3), Wade-Giles shen³)

Last modified on 9 September 2012, at 20:24