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沉没 (chén mò): meaning and stroke order

沉没 (chén mò) means to sink.

沉没

Simplified
沉没
Traditional
沉沒
Pinyin
chén mò

Stroke order of 沉没

沉

  • chén variant of 沉[chen2]
  • chén to submerge; to immerse
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 沈

Stroke by stroke

没

  • méi (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
  • mò drowned; to end
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 沒

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 沉没

  1. chén mò Traditional 沉沒
    • to sink

Radicals of the characters

沉
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes · 氵 on the left, 冗 on the right
没
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes · 氵 on the left, 殳 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

沉没 in our stories

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  • 一百年前的一个冬夜，客轮“海兴号”在离港口不远的海上沉没了，好在船上的乘客全部获救。

    yìbǎi nián qián de yí gè dōngyè kèlún Hǎixīng hào zài lí gǎngkǒu bù yuǎn de hǎi shàng chénmò le hǎozài chuán shàng de chéngkè quánbù huòjiù

    One winter night a hundred years ago, the passenger ship Haixing sank not far from port; fortunately all the passengers were rescued.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 沉没

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).