しんとう
Shintou
Other forms: 滲透
浸透 (Shintou) is a Japanese noun meaning “permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.), infiltration (e.g. of ideas), spread, penetration (e.g. into a market)”.
Meanings
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbpermeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.); infiltration (e.g. of ideas); spread; penetration (e.g. into a market); pervasion
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbpermeation (of a liquid, etc.); soaking; percolation
- noun, suru verb, intransitive verbosmosis
Examples
日本からの輸入製品がアメリカの消費者市場に浸透するには長い時間がかかった。
It took a long time for Japanese imports to penetrate the American consumer markets.
民主主義の精神がわれわれの日常生活の中に浸透するには相当の年月がかかると思います。
I believe it will be quite a long time before the spirit of democracy pervades our daily life.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).