鎮 — calm/suppress

JLPT N1 kanji · 18 strokes · on'yomi chin · kun'yomi shizu·meru.

Metal (金) weight set true (真) to hold things down — quelling.

Example words

• 鎮める — shizumeru — to calm/suppress
• 鎮圧 — chinatsu — suppression

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