陷 (xiàn)
to sink; to get stuck; trap
How 陷 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 阝 — town
- Traditional
- 陷
- Simplified
- 陷 (unchanged)
Components
- 阝 town
- ⺈ knife
- 臼 mortar
Common words using 陷
- 缺陷 quēxiàn
- defect; flaw; physical defect
- 陷入 xiànrù
- to sink into; to get caught up in; to land in (a predicament)
- 陷阱 xiànjǐng
- lit. a pit for trapping animals; a trap; a snare
- 淪陷 lúnxiàn
- to fall into enemy hands; to be occupied; to degenerate
- 衝鋒陷陣 chōngfēngxiànzhèn
- to charge and break through enemy lines
- 身陷 shēnxiàn
- to be trapped; to be imprisoned
- 陷害 xiànhài
- to entrap; to set up; to frame (up)
- 下陷 xiàxiàn
- to subside; subsidence
- 凹陷 āoxiàn
- to cave in; hollow; sunken
- 塌陷 tāxiàn
- to subside; to sink; to cave in
- 攻陷 gōngxiàn
- to overcome; to take (a fortress); to fall (to an attack)
- 構陷 gòuxiàn
- to frame; to bring false charges against
陷 in a sentence
車子陷入泥巴裡了。
Chēzi xiànrù níbā lǐ le.
“The car got stuck in the mud.”
How common is 陷?
陷 is the 1,260th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92.5% of all running text.
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