沉 (chén)
to sink; heavy; deep; profound
How 沉 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 沉
- Simplified
- 沉 (unchanged)
Components
- 氵 water
- 冖 cover
- 几 table
沉 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- chēn
- see 黑沉沉[hei1 chen1 chen1]
- chén
- to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down
Common words using 沉
- 沉重 chénzhòng
- heavy; hard; serious
- 沉默 chénmò
- taciturn; uncommunicative; silent
- 低沉 dīchén
- overcast; gloomy; downcast
- 沉寂 chénjì
- silence; stillness
- 沉思 chénsī
- to contemplate; to ponder; contemplation
- 沉悶 chénmèn
- oppressive (of weather); heavy; depressed
- 沉沉 chénchén
- deeply; heavily
- 沉沒 chénmò
- to sink
- 沉浸 chénjìn
- to soak; to permeate; to immerse
- 沉淪 chénlún
- to sink into (bad connotation)
- 沉溺 chénnì
- to indulge in; to wallow; absorbed in
- 沉澱 chéndiàn
- to settle; to precipitate (solid sediment out of a solution)
沉 in a sentence
他最近沉迷於網路遊戲，功課退步了很多。
Tā zuìjìn chénmí yú wǎnglù yóuxì, gōngkè tuìbù le hěnduō.
“He has been obsessed with online games recently, and his schoolwork has regressed a lot.”
How common is 沉?
沉 is the 746th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 84% of all running text.
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