陷
xiàn HSK6

submerge

陷 xiàn
to sink verb
to fall into; to get stuck or bogged down in mud or sand; to cave in or become sunken
trap noun
(bound form) a pitfall or trap; a hole used for catching animals or enemies
defect noun
(bound form) a defect, flaw, or deficiency
to frame verb
(bound form) to frame someone; to trump up a false charge; to plot against someone
to be captured verb
to be captured, occupied, or fall to the enemy (of a city, territory, etc.)
to capture
to capture or break through (an enemy position), as in 冲锋陷阵 chōng​fēng​xiàn​zhèn

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,262nd most common 101.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,236th most common 67.1 per million appears in 31% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
12.6 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
10.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+9677

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