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to sink

Composition


Components

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Pinyin

chen2 chén

Meaning


Primary

to sink

Alternatives

sink, sunk, sinks, sinking

Mnemonic


[ch-] Charlie Brown is [2] inside the [-(e)n] infirmary where there a flood has occurred and water 氵 sprays in from the outside. He floats atop a 几 table wearing a Red Cross 冖 crown as he floats above the flooded sickroom and other patients struggle to reach his little makeshift raft. However, it begins 沉 to sink and he looks characteristically morose as he 沉 sinks into the flood water below where he will probably drown.

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