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沉

chén, chēn

sink

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 冘 represents the sound. Variant of 沈.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

冘 sound component

冘  Sound component

yín, yóu

  

to move on

Evolution

沉 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
沉 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
沉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

沉  

chén

sink, submerge; addicted to; to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy

沉  

chēn

see 黑沉沉[hēi​chēn​chēn]

Most common words with 沉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

沉默

taciturn

沉

to submerge

沉重

heavy

沉浸

to soak

沉迷

to be engrossed

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 31.6194% of movies

1192nd most common character in movies

747th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6C89


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