created sense approved 沉潭 · chéntán · to drown a person in a pond — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
沉潭
chéntán
to drown a person in a pond
To sink someone to the bottom of a deep pool as a traditional form of punishment, often carried out by clans or families.
沉, 潭
沉 (literal) → 沉 · chén · to sink 潭 (literal) → 潭 · tán · pool
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition