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沉着

chén zhuó

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 沉著

沉着 (chén zhuó) means "steady; calm and collected; not nervous". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 沉着 means

1. steady
2. calm and collected
3. not nervous

The characters in 沉着

• 沉chénto submerge; to immerse; to sink
• 着zheaspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state

Example sentences

• 玛莉拉阴沉着脸。
  Marilla's face was rather grim.

Words starting with 沉着

• 沉着应战chén zhuó yìng zhànto remain calm in the face of adversity (idiom)

Where 沉着 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chéng–chén (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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