Kanji N1

浸: immersed, soak, dip

浸 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning immersed, soak, dip, written with 10 strokes. It is read シン (on) and ひたす, ひたる, つかる (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 浸す (ひたす, to soak) and 浸透 (しんとう, permeation).

浸

Meanings

  • immersed
  • soak
  • dip
  • steep
  • moisten
  • wet
  • dunk
Strokes10
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1447 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • シン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • ひたす
  • ひたる
  • つかる

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 浸

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 浸すひたす

    to soak; to dip; to steep; to immerse

    JLPT N1
  • 浸透しんとう

    permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.)

  • 浸水しんすい

    inundation; submersion; flood

  • 浸るひたる

    to be soaked in; to be flooded; to be submerged

  • 浸食しんしょく

    erosion; corrosion

  • 浸かるつかる

    to be submerged; to be soaked

  • 水浸しみずびたし

    submersion; inundation; being flooded

  • 浸し物ひたしもの

    boiled greens flavored with soy (flavoured)

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.