Word Meaning 沈吟

ちんぎん chingin

沈吟 is read as ちんぎん (chingin) and means hum.

Meaning

English

  1. hum
  2. meditation
  3. painstaking elaboration on one's poem
  4. groaning in distress

Reading

Kana

ちんぎん

Romaji

chingin

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 14 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 準2級 Rank 134128 Priority V

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

沈黙

ちんもく

Silence (1966 novel by Shūsaku Endō)

沈没

ちんぼつ

getting dead drunk

沈滞

ちんたい

stagnation

沈船捜索救助計画

ちんせんそうさくきゅうじょけいかく

Deep Submergence Systems Project

沈着率

ちんちゃくりつ

deposition rate

沈思黙考

ちんしもっこう

being lost in deep thought

沈黙は金雄弁は銀

ちんもくはきんゆうべんはぎん

speech is silver, silence is golden

沈黙交易

ちんもくこうえき

silent trade

沈金彫

ちんきんぼり

gold-inlaid lacquerware

高歌放吟

こうかほうぎん

singing at the top of one's voice

放歌高吟

ほうかこうぎん

loud singing

病中吟

びょうちゅうぎん

poems composed in one's sickbed