沈 — Chinese character
沈
chén
to sink, to submerge; addicted; surname
- Pinyin
- chén
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 氵 冘
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 冘
- Traditional
- 瀋
- Japanese
- 沈 as a kanji
沈 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 4 · Zhuangzi 8
- Mencius 2B.8
- Mencius 4B.31
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi The Secret of Life
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Tsê Yang
- Zhuangzi Contingencies
- Zhuangzi On Declining Power
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.