沉
chén HSK4

sink

沉 chén
heavy adjective
having great weight

这袋大米很沉。

zhè dài dà​mǐ hěn chén.

This bag of rice is very heavy.

sink verb
to submerge, immerse, or sink in liquid

石头沉到了水底。

shí​tou chén dào le shuǐ dǐ.

The stone sank to the bottom of the water.

deep adjective
deep, profound, or sound (as in sleep)

昨晚他睡得很沉。

zuó​wǎn tā shuì de hěn chén.

He slept very soundly last night.

lower verb
to lower, drop, or keep down

他沉下脸来，显得很不高兴。

tā chén xià liǎn lái, xiǎn​de hěn bù gāo​xìng.

His face darkened, and he looked very unhappy.

Frequency
Character
Written text
747th most common 252.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,192nd most common 71.5 per million appears in 32% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
14.8 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
28.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+6C89

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)