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Radical: 水 Ideographic: An excessive
冗 amount of water
氵 Character Formation:
- Pinyin: chén
English Definition: to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy
Chinese Definition:
①没入水中，与“浮”相对：沉没。沉渣。沉浮(喻盛衰消长)。石沉大海。沉鱼落雁。静影沉璧。
②落下，陷入：沉陷。
③重量大：沉重。
④慎重，不轻浮：沉着。沉毅。
⑤深切长久，程度深：沉思。沉滞。沉吟。沉默。
⑥重浮轻。
Example Words:
沉默 [
chén mò ]: taciturn; uncommunicative; silent
沉淀 [
chén diàn ]: to settle; to precipitate (solid sediment out of a solution)
沉思 [
chén sī ]: to contemplate; to ponder; contemplation; meditation
深沉 [
shēn chén ]: deep; profound; (of a person) reserved; undemonstrative; (of a voice, sound etc) deep; low-pitched
- Pinyin: chēn
English Definition: see 黑沉沉
Example Words:
Example Sentences- 她的话使我差不多清醒了，我觉得我的心发沉，但不明白发生了什么事。
Half awakened by her words, I felt my heart sink within me, but could not make out what had happened.
- 我能说阿拉伯语，但是当有人过来告诉我这个消息的时候，我的心沉了下去。
I’m an Arabic speaker. And when someone came over and told ... me the news, my stomach sank.
- 我希望深深地、更深地沉下去，离开表面，离开表面上的生硬的个别事实。
I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
- 假如那时候我为慎重起见把它沉在海里，那么今天我也许会相信它是一首好诗。
I might have believed to-day that it was good, had I taken the precaution of sinking it then in the sea.
- 我觉得头有点沉。
My head feels a bit heavy.
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