沈

sediment; deposit; precipitate; sludge; lees

agarwood; aloeswood; gharuwood; eaglewood; agalloch; agallochum

aquilaria tree; lign aloes

hum; meditation; painstaking elaboration on one's poem; groaning in distress

Formal or literary term

composed courage; calm courage

Formal or literary term

sinking into obscurity; coming down in the world; being ruined

Formal or literary term

sinking deeply

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Silent Spring (book by Rachel Carson, 1962)

being immersed in water; being drowned

being infatuated; being dazed; being blinded by

very drunk

charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame

silt

Medicine

sediment; hypostatis; sludge

bridge designed to be underwater during a flood

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

sedimentation; deposition

charms of a uniquely beautiful woman; (so beautiful that) fish stay on the bottom of water and flying wild geese fall from the sky in shame

taciturn; reticent

gold-inlaid lacquerware

precipitation tank; settling tank; sedimentation tank

Idiomatic expression

having few faults as well as few virtues; not burning agarwood (incense); not passing wind

submerged shoreline

grit

underwater tunnel construction by sinking prefabricated box culverts

Proverb

speech is silver, silence is golden

Deep Submergence Systems Project; DSSP