昏沉

Chinese

		muddle-headed; twilight; to faint muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness	submerge; immerse; sink submerge; immerse; sink; deep; profound; to lower; to drop
trad. (昏沉)		昏	沉
simp. #(昏沉)		昏	沉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hūnchén

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣ ㄔㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹ cam⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hun-tîm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hūnchén
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣ ㄔㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hunchén
    • Wade–Giles: hun¹-chʻên²
    • Yale: hwūn-chén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huenchern
    • Palladius: хуньчэнь (xunʹčɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fan¹ cam⁴
    • Yale: fān chàhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹ tsam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen¹ cem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵ t͡sʰɐm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hun-tîm
    • Tâi-lô: hun-tîm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hundiim
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hun³³ tim²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hun⁴⁴⁻²² tim¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hun⁴⁴⁻²² tim²⁴/

Adjective

昏沉

1. (of the sky) murky
2. (of the mind) befuddled; muddled; disoriented

Synonyms

• (murky):

• 冥冥 (míngmíng) (literary)
• 慘／惨 (cǎn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 慘淡／惨淡 (cǎndàn)
• 慘白／惨白 (cǎnbái)
• 昏暗 (hūn'àn)
• 昏黑 (hūnhēi)
• 晦冥 (huìmíng) (literary, used both literally and figuratively)
• 晦暗 (huì'àn) (literary)
• 暗淡 (àndàn) (used both literally and figuratively)
• 烏暗／乌暗 (Hokkien, Teochew)
• 陰幽／阴幽 (yīnyōu) (literary)
• 黑暗 (hēi'àn)

 

Derived terms

• 昏昏沉沉