陸沉
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[edit]shore; land; continent shore; land; continent; six (fraud-proof) |
submerge; immerse; sink submerge; immerse; sink; deep; profound; to lower; to drop | ||
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trad. (陸沉) | 陸 | 沉 | |
simp. (陆沉) | 陆 | 沉 |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ ㄔㄣˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: lùchén
- Wade–Giles: lu4-chʻên2
- Yale: lù-chén
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luhchern
- Palladius: лучэнь (lučɛnʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /lu⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰən³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: luk6 cam4
- Yale: luhk chàhm
- Cantonese Pinyin: luk9 tsam4
- Guangdong Romanization: lug6 cem4
- Sinological IPA (key): /lʊk̚² t͡sʰɐm²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
[edit]陸沉
- (of land) to sink into the sea
- 而這時,身後的荒島已經消失,像是那裡發生了陸沉,只剩下一片澄明的海…… [MSC, trad.]
- From: 张天民 (1984) “荒岛 [huāngdǎo]”, in 人民文学, number 2, pages 5-40
- ér zhèshí, shēnhòu de huāngdǎo yǐjīng xiāoshī, xiàngshì nàlǐ fāshēng le lùchén, zhǐ shèngxià yīpiàn chéngmíng de hǎi...... [Pinyin]
- Right now, the islands behind me have already disappeared, as if they had sunk into the sea, leaving a clear and open sea behind…
而这时,身后的荒岛已经消失,像是那里发生了陆沉,只剩下一片澄明的海…… [MSC, simp.]
- (literary, figurative, of a country's territory) to fall into enemy hands