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Kanji Detail for 浸 - "soak, immerse, permeate"
浸
- Meaning
浸 means "soak, immerse, permeate."
To soak - To immerse; to be submerged in water.
To permeate - For water to seep in; to gradually penetrate.
Gradually - Little by little; step by step.
To pour - To wash; to splash water.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
immersed; soak; dip; steep; moisten; wet; dunk
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
soak, immerse, dip, percolate
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to immerse; to soak; to steep; gradually
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to dip, to immerse, to soak; to percolate, to steep
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Putting something in water so that the water gradually seeps in. | The general name for marshes. Large lakes and the like are all called 浸. See Rites of Zhou. | Gradual. Meaning arriving gradually. As in "national power gradually flourishing" (國勢浸盛). | 浸假. An auxiliary word. Meaning to imagine what might happen afterward. | "Slanderous words that gradually soak in" (浸潤之譖). See Analects. Meaning slander that gradually enters like water soaking into things. 浸淫 is equivalent to "gradually soaking." As in "soaking for a long time" (浸淫日久). Originally written as 寖.
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Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces
眼の中へはいる活字は心の底まで浸み渡らないうちに烟のごとく消えて行くのです。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
「書物の中に自分を生埋めにする事のできなかった私は、酒に魂を浸して、己れを忘れようと試みた時期もあります」
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
眼の中へはいる活字は心の底まで浸み渡らないうちに烟のごとく消えて行くのです。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
「書物の中に自分を生埋めにする事のできなかった私は、酒に魂を浸して、己れを忘れようと試みた時期もあります」
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha