深沉 shēnchén▶ dalam

Stroke order

深沉 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.

• 深 — 11 strokes
• 沉 — 7 strokes

Senses

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

Related words

• 沉思Meditasi
• 沉淀mereda
• 沉着tenang; berkepala dingin
• 沉重berat
• 沉闷menindas; tertutup
• 深奥mendalam

深沉 is pronounced shēnchén and means “dalam”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 深沉 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.