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Kanji Detail for 浸 - "to soak, to permeate"

浸

  • Meaning

    浸 means "to soak, to permeate." Also associated with gradually.

    1. To soak - To immerse; to be submerged in water.

    2. To permeate - For water to seep in; to gradually penetrate.

    3. Gradually - Little by little; step by step.

    4. To pour - To wash; to splash water.

  • Words using 浸

    • 浸水 しんすい Listen inundation; submersion; flood
    • 浸かる つかる Listen to be submerged; to be soaked; to be pickled

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    • Verified meaning: to soak, to permeate
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: gradually

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

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    shin(シン) シン

  • Kunyomi

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    hita.ru(ひた-る) ひた-る

    hita.su(ひた-す) ひた-す

    tsu.karu(つ-かる) つ-かる

  • Strokes

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    10 strokes

  • Radical

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    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    to soak to immerse to permeate dip steep absorb drench flood infiltrate marinate saturate seep submerge waterlogged

Sentences including 浸

  • The basements are flooded.

  • The basement is flooded.

  • The floor was soaked with water.

  • Steep for about 5 minutes.

  • Steep for about 5 minutes.

  • Tom soaked in the bathtub.

  • She bathed her ankle with hot water.

  • The girl stood up to her knees in the water.

  • He was knee deep in mud.

  • The bird dipped its head into the water.

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