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Vocabulary (12)

• 日本沈没

  にっぽんちんぼつ

  Japan Sinks (1973 novel by Sakyo Komatsu)

• 沈黙

  ちんもく

  Silence (1966 novel by Shūsaku Endō)

• 沈黙の春

  ちんもくのはる

  Silent Spring (book by Rachel Carson, 1962)

• 石綿沈着症

  せきめんちんちゃくしょう

  asbestosis

• 沈思黙考

  ちんしもっこう

  being lost in deep thought

• 爆沈

  ばくちん

  blowing up and sinking

• 沈下橋

  ちんかばし

  bridge designed to be underwater during a flood

• 沈勇

  ちんゆう

  composed courage

• 萎靡沈滞

  いびちんたい

  decline of energy and vigour (vigor)

• 綿状沈殿

  めんじょうちんでん

  flocculent precipitate

• 沈金彫

  ちんきんぼり

  gold-inlaid lacquerware

• 沈金

  ちんきん

  gold-inlaid lacquerware (using powdered gold in etched grooves)