Kanji N1

鎮: tranquilize, ancient peace-preservation centers

鎮 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning tranquilize, ancient peace-preservation centers, written with 18 strokes. It is read チン (on) and しずめる, しずまる, おさえ (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 鎮圧 (ちんあつ, suppression) and 重鎮 (じゅうちん, leader).

鎮

Meanings

  • tranquilize
  • ancient peace-preservation centers
Strokes18
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1617 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • チン

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

Kun reading
  • しずめる
  • しずまる
  • おさえ

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 鎮

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

  • 鎮圧ちんあつ

    suppression (of a riot, revolt, etc.)

  • 重鎮じゅうちん

    leader; authority; mainstay

  • 鎮魂ちんこん

    repose of a soul

  • 鎮守ちんじゅ

    local Shinto deity; tutelary god

  • 鎮痛剤ちんつうざい

    analgesic; painkiller; sedative

  • 鎮定ちんてい

    suppression (e.g. of a rebellion); pacification

  • 鎮火ちんか

    extinguishing; dying out (of a fire)

  • 地鎮祭じちんさい

    ceremony for purifying a building site (before building commences)

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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.