擱淺 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 搁浅 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. gēqiǎn ㄍㄜ ㄑㄧㄢˇ 男 女 to run aground to become stranded to run into difficulties and come to a standstill to stall fig. Character by character 擱(gē)put 淺(qiǎn)shallow A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT