浮沈

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see 浮沉 (“to float and sink in the water; to go up and down; to drift along”).
(This term is a variant form of 浮沉).

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
ちん
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̟t͡ɕĩɴ]

Noun

()(ちん) • (fuchin

  1. floating and sinking; ebb and flow; the rise and fall
    • 2025 March 7, 伊藤孝恵 [Takae Itō], quotee, “第217回国会 参議院 予算委員会 第4号 令和7年3月7日 [217th Diet House of Councilors Budget Committee No. 4 March 7, 2025]”, in 国会会議録検索システム [Diet Proceedings Search System]‎[1], 国立国会図書館 [National Diet Library], retrieved 4 September 2025:
      この我が国の浮沈というのは就職氷河期世代に懸かっている、そういうふうに思いますし、[...]
      Kono wagakuni no fuchin to iu no wa shūshoku hyōgaki sedai ni kakatte iru, sō iu fū ni omoi masu shi,
      I believe that fate of our country depends on the generation that experienced the employment ice age,

Verb

()(ちん)する • (fuchin suruintransitive suru (stem ()(ちん) (fuchin shi), past ()(ちん)した (fuchin shita))

  1. float and sink; rise and fall

Conjugation