沉潭 Save Sign in to save words chéntán ㄔㄣˊ ㄊㄢˊ to sink sb to the bottom of a pond (a kind of private punishment, especially for unfaithful wives) Character by character 沉(chén)submerge 潭(tán)surname Tan A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0