石沉大海 Save Sign in to save words shíchéndàhǎi ㄕˊ ㄔㄣˊ ㄉㄚˋ ㄏㄞˇ lit. to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea (idiom) fig. to elicit no response Character by character 石(shí)surname Shi 沉(chén)submerge 大(dà)big 海(hǎi)surname Hai A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0