Keyword
pitfall
- to sink
- to plunge
- trap
- Frequency
- #1305
- Strokes
- 10
Readings
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Mnemonic
A place 阝 with a pit 臽; 臽 also provides the pronunciation
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
陷入
to sink into; to get caught up in; to land in (a predicament)
缺陷
defect; flaw
陷阱
pitfall; snare; trap
沦陷
to fall into enemy hands; to be occupied; to degenerate; to submerge
陷
pitfall; trap; to get stuck; to sink; to cave in; to frame (false charge); to capture (a city in battle); to fall (to the enemy); defect
陷害
to entrap; to set up; to frame (up); to make false charges against
陷于
caught in (a bad situation); to fall into (trap etc)
诬陷
to entrap; to frame; to plant false evidence against sb
深陷
to be deeply in (trouble, debt etc); deep set (eyes)
攻陷
to capture (a fortress, city etc); to take by force
陷落
to surrender (of a fortress); to fall (to the enemy); subsidence (of land)
身陷
to be trapped; to be imprisoned
凹陷
to cave in; hollow; sunken; depressed
塌陷
to subside; to sink; to cave in
下陷
to subside; subsidence
沦陷区
enemy-held territory
冲锋陷阵
(idiom) to charge into battle; (fig.) to be on the front lines
身陷囹圄
thrown into prison; behind bars
构陷
to frame; to bring false charges against
沉陷
to sink; to cave in; (of a building etc) to subside; (fig.) to get lost (in contemplation, daydreams etc)
越陷越深
to fall deeper and deeper (in debt, in love etc)
陷坑
pitfall; pit as animal trap
低陷
to sink; to settle