Kanji
N2 7 strokes Grade 8 freq #1271

sink, be submerged, subside, be depressed, aloes

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

water mizu

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

sinking; subsidence
composure; calmness
sinking; foundering
floating and sinking; rise and fall
grave; sad
stagnation; inactivity
settling down; quieting down
sedimentation (e.g. of red blood cells); precipitation
low spirits; depression
(attacking and) sinking (a ship); sending (a ship) to the bottom

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to sink; to go under
ups and downs; bobbing up and down
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge

Example sentences

Her calm words banished our fears.

The Titanic sunk on its maiden voyage.

It was in 1912 that the Titanic sank during her first voyage.

The sun is just setting.