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深沉

shēn chén

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

深沉 (shēn chén) means "deep; profound; (of a person) reserved". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 深沉 means

1. deep
2. profound
3. (of a person) reserved
4. undemonstrative
5. (of a voice, sound etc) deep
6. low-pitched

The characters in 深沉

• 深shēn(lit. and fig.) deep
• 沉chénto submerge; to immerse; to sink

Words containing 深沉

• 故作深沉gù zuò shēn chénto play the profound thinker

Where 深沉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shè–Shè (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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