沉
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Translingual
    
    Han character
    
沉 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水月竹弓 (EBHN) or 水月竹山 (EBHU), four-corner 37110, composition ⿰氵冗(GJKV) or ⿰氵⿱冖儿(HT))
Derived characters
    
- 𩂸, 𫪌
References
    
- KangXi: page 610, character 7
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17190
- Dae Jaweon: page 1003, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1574, character 1
- Unihan data for U+6C89
Chinese
    
| trad. | 沉 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 沉 | |
| alternative forms | 沈 | |
Glyph origin
    
Characters in the same phonetic series (冘) (Zhengzhang, 2003)  
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 冘 | *lu, *lum | 
| 抌 | *lu, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *loʔ | 
| 狖 | *lus | 
| 貁 | *lus | 
| 耽 | *ʔl'uːm | 
| 眈 | *ʔl'uːm, *ʔl'uːmʔ, *l'uːm | 
| 酖 | *ʔl'uːm | 
| 妉 | *ʔl'uːm | 
| 黕 | *ʔl'uːmʔ | 
| 衴 | *ʔl'uːmʔ | 
| 瓭 | *ʔl'uːmʔ | 
| 馾 | *ʔl'uːms | 
| 髧 | *l'uːmʔ | 
| 紞 | *ʔl'oːmʔ | 
| 鈂 | *zlum, *l'um | 
| 沈 | *l'um, *l'ums, *hljumʔ | 
| 沉 | *l'um | 
| 枕 | *l'um, *ʔljumʔ, *ʔljums | 
| 莐 | *l'um | 
| 霃 | *l'um | 
| 鴆 | *l'ums | 
| 訦 | *ɦljum, *ɦljumʔ | 
| 忱 | *ɦljum | 
| 邥 | *hljumʔ | 
| 魫 | *hljumʔ | 
Variant of 沈, see there for more.
Etymology
    
MSEA areal etymon: similar words exist in Austroasiatic, Kra-Dai, & Tibeto-Burman; yet those are difficult to match with potential OC relations (Schuessler, 2007).
Possible allofams are 淫 (OC *lɯm), 瀋 (OC *l̥ʰjɯmʔ), 函 (OC *ɡuːm, *ɡruːm), & 湛 (OC *ʔl'uːm, *r'uːmʔ, *l'um) (ibid.).
Pronunciation
    
Definitions
    
沉
- to sink; to submerge (into water)
- to fall; to sink; to subside
- to settle; to make sink
- to suppress; to stifle; to neglect
- to be neglected
- to indulge in; to be given to
- to hide; to be hidden
- heavy; weighty
- dark; gloomy
- deep; profound
- long (duration); prolonged; lengthy
- deeply; profoundly
- (Cantonese) Alternative form of 浸 (zam6, “to drown”).
Synonyms
    
	Dialectal synonyms of 重 (“heavy”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words | 
|---|---|---|
| Classical Chinese | 重 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 重 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 沉, 重 | 
| Taiwan | 重 | |
| Jinan | 沉, 重 | |
| Xi'an | 沉, 重 | |
| Wuhan | 重 | |
| Chengdu | 重 | |
| Guilin | 重 | |
| Yangzhou | 重 | |
| Hefei | 重 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 重 | 
| Hong Kong | 重 | |
| Yangjiang | 重 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 重 | 
| Hakka | Meixian | 重 | 
| Jin | Taiyuan | 重, 沉 | 
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 重 | 
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 重 | 
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 重 | 
| Quanzhou | 重 | |
| Zhangzhou | 重 | |
| Chaozhou | 重 | |
| Wu | Suzhou | 重 | 
| Wenzhou | 重 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 重 | 
| Shuangfeng | 重 | |
Compounds
    
Derived terms from 沉
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Japanese
    
    Kanji
    
沉
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