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沉闷

chén mèn

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

沉闷 (chén mèn) means "oppressive (of weather); heavy; depressed". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 沉闷 means

1. oppressive (of weather)
2. heavy
3. depressed
4. not happy
5. (of sound) dull
6. muffled

The characters in 沉闷

• 沉chénto submerge; to immerse; to sink
• 闷mènbored; depressed; melancholy

Example sentences

• 这位老教授的讲座冗长而沉闷。
  Zhèwèi lǎo jiàoshòu de jiǎngzuò rǒngcháng ér chénmèn.
  The old professor's lectures are long-winded and ponderous.
• 咖啡让我在沉闷的音乐会中保持清醒。
  Kāfēi ràng wǒ zài chénmèn de yīnyuèhuì zhòngbǎo chí qīngxǐng.
  The coffee enabled me to stay awake during the dull concert.
• 如果没有了音乐，这个世界就会变得十分沉闷。
  Rúguǒ méiyǒu le yīnyuè, zhège shìjiè jiù huì biànde shífēn chénmèn.
  Were it not for music, the world would be a dull place.

Where 沉闷 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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chén mèn correctly.
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