浸
浸 — Immersed
immersed, soak, dip, steep, moisten, wet
On’yomiシン (shin)
Kun’yomiひたす (hitasu)
Kun’yomiひたる (hitaru)
Kun’yomiつかる (tsukaru)
Stroke order (10 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 浸
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 浸透 | しんとう shintou | permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.); infiltration (e.g. of ideas); spread |
| 浸水 | しんすい shinsui | inundation; submersion; flood |
| 浸す | ひたす hitasu | to soak; to dip; to steep |
| 浸る | ひたる hitaru | to be soaked in; to be flooded; to be submerged |
| 浸かる | つかる tsukaru | to be submerged; to be soaked; to be pickled |
| 浸食 | しんしょく shinshoku | erosion; corrosion |
Study notes
浸 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 10 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1447 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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