chén

B1 Level 5 ★ Core word
Process verb

Definition

  1. to submerge
  2. to immerse
  3. to sink
  4. to keep down
  5. to lower
  6. to drop
  7. deep
  8. profound
  9. heavy
  10. variant of 沉

Stroke order

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Example

那艘船慢慢地沉了下去。

That ship slowly sank.

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Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).