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Mythic Mandarin

下沉 (xià chén): meaning and stroke order

下沉 (xià chén) means to sink down.

下沉

Simplified
下沉
Traditional
下沉 (same form)
Pinyin
xià chén

Stroke order of 下沉

下

  • xià down; downwards
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

沉

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 下沉

  1. xià chén
    • to sink down

Radicals of the characters

下
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes · 一 on top, 卜 below
沉
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes · 氵 on the left, 冗 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.

下沉 in our stories

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  • 轻而清的东西慢慢上升，变成了天；重而浊的东西慢慢下沉，变成了地。

    qīng ér qīng de dōngxi mànmàn shàngshēng biànchéng le tiān zhòng ér zhuó de dōngxi mànmàn xiàchén biànchéng le dì

    What was light and clear slowly rose and became the sky; what was heavy and murky slowly sank and became the earth.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 下沉

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).