沉 chén
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verb
to be addicted to
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '沉') -
verb
to submerge / to immerse / to sink / to lower / to drop
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '沉'; Unihan '沉') -
adjective
heavy
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
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- 沉浸 to permeate / to immerse
- 沉香 Chinese eaglewood / agarwood tree (Aquilaria agallocha) / lignum aloes
- 沉默 to be silent ; silent
- 沉思 to meditate / to contemplate / to ponder
- 沉重 critical / grave / serious ; serene ; thick / heavy
- 沉淀(沉澱) to settle / to precipitate
- 沉静(沉靜) peaceful / quiet / calm / gentle
- 沉闷(沉悶) oppressive / heavy / depressed / gloomy
- 沉痛 grieved
- 沉着(沉著) steady / unmoved ; calm and collected
- 深沉 deep ; perfect ; steady ; abstruse / hidden
- 沉沦(沉淪) to sink / to be reduced to ; to degenerate / to be reduced to ; to indulge in ; to vanish socially
- 昏沉 murky / dazed / befuddled / dizzy
- 沉溺 to sink ; to indulge in / to be addicted ; to suffer in a disaster
- 低沉 deep and low (of sound) / muffled ; overcast / gloomy / downcast
- 沉香木 aloeswood / agarwood
- 沉船 a shipwreck / a sunken boat / a sinking ship
- 沉稳(沉穩) steady / calm / unflustered
- 沉甸甸 heavy
- 沉睡 to be fast asleep / (fig.) to lie dormant / to lie undiscovered
- 沉不住气(沉不住氣) to lose one's cool / to get impatient / unable to remain calm
- 沉积(沉積) sediment / deposit ; sedimentation
- 下沉 to sink down
- 沉积岩(沉積岩) sedimentary rock
- 沉迷 to be engrossed / to be absorbed with / to lose oneself in / to be addicted to
- 沉醉 to become totally intoxicated ; infatuated
- 消沉 depressed / bad mood / low spirit
- 沉浮 bobbing up and down in the water ; to flourish and then decline ; changes in fortune / vicissitudes ; a multitude
- 浮沉 ups and downs (of life etc) / to drift along / to sink and emerge
- 沉沉 deep ; grand / majestic ; heavy [hearted] ; without news
- 沉寂 silence / stillness
- 沉疴(沉痾) grave disease
- 沉默寡言 habitually silent / reticent / uncommunicative
- 沉湎 deeply immersed / wallowing in / deeply engrossed in
- 击沉(擊沉) to attack and sink (a ship)
- 沉吟 to hesitate ; to ponder ; to mutter to oneself irresolutely ; serious
- 西沉 (of the sun) to set
- 沉着应战(沉著應戰) to remain calm in the face of adversity
- 阴沉(陰沉) gloomy
- 沉痼 chronic illness ; a deeply entrenched problem
- 沉落 to sink / to fall
- 沉没(沉沒) to sink ; to be stuck in a predicament
- 破釜沉舟 break the cauldrons and sink the boats / to cut off one's means of retreat
- 香销玉沉(香銷玉沉) fragrance dispersed, jade lost / for a female to have passed away
- 意志消沉 unshakable determination
- 死气沉沉(死氣沉沉) declining in life and spirit / lifeless
- 沉渣 sediment
- 暮气沉沉(暮氣沉沉) the evening air is heavy / feeling dejected
- 故作深沉 to play the profound thinker
- 昏昏沉沉 dizzy
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