沉

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))

• 𩂸, 𫪌

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

Variant of 沈, see there for more.

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.).

沉

1. to sink; to submerge (into water)

   我頂泳帽沉咗落水底。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   我顶泳帽沉咗落水底。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ deng² wing⁶ mou^6-2 cam⁴ zo² lok⁶ seoi² dai².

   My swimming cap sank to the bottom of the pool.

2. to fall; to sink; to subside
3. to settle; to make sink
4. to suppress; to stifle; to neglect
5. to be neglected
6. to indulge in; to be given to
7. to hide; to be hidden
8. heavy; weighty
9. dark; gloomy
10. deep; profound

    睡得很沉  ―  shuì de hěn chén  ―  to sleep soundly

11. long (duration); prolonged; lengthy
12. deeply; profoundly
13. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 浸 (zam6, “to drown”)

• “沉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “沉”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 29.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: しん (shin)、じん (jin)
• Kan-on: しん (shin)、ちん (chin)
• Kun: しずむ (shizumu, 沉む)、しずめる (shizumeru, 沉める)

沉 • (chim, sim) (hangeul 침, 심, revised chim, sim, McCune–Reischauer ch'im, sim, Yale chim, sim)

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沉: Hán Nôm readings: tròm, chằm, chìm, đắm, đẫm, ngằm, ngầm, trằm, trầm, đẵm

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