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HSK
heavy / hard / serious / critical
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *沉* | 沉* | *沉
to submerge / to immerse / to sink / to keep down / to lower / to drop / deep / profound / heavy
HSK 4
taciturn / uncommunicative / silent
HSK 4
to sink down
steady / calm and collected / not nervous
HSK 7-9
to contemplate / to ponder / contemplation / meditation
HSK 7-9
deep / profound / (of a person) reserved / undemonstrative / (of a voice, sound etc) deep / low-pitched
the Chinese market, excluding first- and second-tier cities
gloomy
habitually silent (idiom) / reticent / uncommunicative
to become intoxicated
to sink
lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat / to burn one's boats
oppressive (of weather) / heavy / depressed / not happy / (of sound) dull / muffled
HSK 7-9
heavy
HSK 7-9
steady / calm / unflustered
HSK 7-9
(chemistry) to settle; to precipitate / (chemistry) sediment; precipitate / (fig.) (of emotions, thoughts, experience etc) to settle and be absorbed over time; to take shape gradually (through reflection or maturation)
HSK 7-9
to soak / to permeate / to immerse
HSK 7-9
to be engrossed / to be absorbed with / to lose oneself in / to be addicted to
HSK 7-9
to sink into despondency / (of morale, willpower etc) to diminish; to plummet
HSK 7-9
unhurried / deliberate
to subside / to cave in / subsidence
to be fast asleep / (fig.) to lie dormant; to lie undiscovered
melancholy; gloomy
sediment / deposit / sedimentation (geology)
(fig.) to indulge in; to wallow in (addiction, vice etc) / (literary) to sink into water
a shipwreck / a sinking
peaceful / quiet / calm / gentle
precipitate; sediment
shipwreck / sunken boat / sinking ship
grief / remorse / deep in sorrow / bitter (anguish) / profound (condolences)
to attack and sink (a ship)
lit. to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea (idiom) / fig. to elicit no response
deeply immersed / fig. wallowing in / deeply engrossed in
silence is golden (idiom)
ups and downs (of life etc) / to drift along / to sink and emerge
Chinese eaglewood; agarwood tree; lignum aloes (Aquilaria agallocha)
sedimentation (geology)
clastic sediment
dark (weather, mood)
sedimentary rock (geology)
to hit hard
silence / stillness
chronic illness; (fig.) deep-rooted problem; longstanding issue
lit. broken halberds embedded in the sand (idiom) / fig. reminder of a fierce battle; remnants of a disastrous defeat
to stay calm / to keep one's composure
deep growling thunder
to lose one's cool / to get impatient / unable to remain calm
to play the profound thinker
(idiom) dizzy
sediment
lit. fish sink, goose alights (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); fig. female beauty captivating even the birds and beasts
immersive
chronic illness / fig. deeply entrenched problem
to remain calm in the face of adversity (idiom)
(of weather) overcast; gloomy / (of a voice) low and deep / low-spirited; downcast
to sink into (vice, depravity etc) / to pass into oblivion / downfall; passing
to wallow in alcohol and sex (idiom); overindulgence in wine and women / an incorrigible drunkard and lecher
to mutter to oneself irresolutely
sunk cost (economics)
to scuttle (a ship) / to drown oneself
open caisson
to have one's ups and downs
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *沈* | 沈* | *沈
variant of
HSK 4
lit. sinking and floating / to bob up and down on water / ebb and flow / fig. rise and fall / ups and downs of fortune / vicissitudes
to sink / to fall
to capsize and sink
(of the sun) to set
caisson / sink box
erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
oceanic sediment (geology)
to lurk under water / to immerse oneself in (study etc) / to lie low; to keep a low profile / quiet; reserved; self-possessed
deep and profound
to sink; to cave in; (of a building etc) to subside / (fig.) to get lost (in contemplation, daydreams etc)
variant of 沉溺
to keep cool; to stay calm
stagnant / congealed / fig. grave in manner / low (of voice)
to sink sb to the bottom of a pond (a kind of private punishment, especially for unfaithful wives)
erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)
without news from sb (idiom)
lit. the fish swam away into the depths, the goose vanished in the distance (idiom) / fig. to have had no news (of sb who went away); to have lost contact
pitch-dark
murky / dazed / befuddled / dizzy
dead atmosphere / lifeless / spiritless
deeply / heavily
to scuttle (a ship)
hemochromatosis
lit. the best wine is at the bottom of the jug (idiom) / fig. the best is saved for last
sedimentary belt (geology)
to soak / to steep
variant of 沉澱|沉淀
HSK 7-9


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