Do you think it's a trap?
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陷
xiàn
HSK 3.0 · 7–9
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xiàn · haam6 (Jyutping)
- 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
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Character breakdown
陷
- Meaning
- submerge, sink, plunge; trap
- Radical
- 阝
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- ⿰阝臽
- Cangjie
- NLNHX
- Four-corner
- 7727.7
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Example sentences
I know how to set a trap.
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