沉吟 chényín

  1. chényín verb to hesitate
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 迟疑 (Guoyu '沉吟' 1)
  2. chényín verb to ponder
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 深思 (Guoyu '沉吟' 2)
  3. chényín verb to mutter to oneself irresolutely
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '沉吟'; Guoyu '沉吟' 3)
  4. chényín adjective serious
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 沉重 (Guoyu '沉吟' 4)

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

Collocations