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消沉

xiāo chén

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

消沉 (xiāo chén) means "depressed; bad mood; low spirit". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 消沉 means

1. to sink into despondency
2. (of morale, willpower etc) to diminish; to plummet

The characters in 消沉

• 消xiāoto diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time)
• 沉chénto submerge; to immerse; to sink

Example sentences

• 我一整天都觉得很消沉。
  Wǒ yī zhěngtiān dōu juéde hěn xiāochén.
  I was feeling blue all day.

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