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潜心

qiánxīn

to devote oneself wholeheartedly to

HSK 8 · Topic “Study and knowledge”
A scholar bent over an old book beside a lit oil lamp.
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Characters in this word

潜 qián

Strokes
15
Radical
氵 — water
Made of
氵 water 替 to change, to replace, to substitute for
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 潜

心 xīn

Strokes
4
Radical
心 — heart
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

Example phrases

  • 她辞去行政职务，潜心研究濒危语言的语法体系。 Tā cíqù xíngzhèng zhíwù, qiánxīn yánjiū bīnwēi yǔyán de yǔfǎ tǐxì. She resigned from her administrative post and devoted herself to studying the grammar systems of endangered languages.
  • 他潜心学习十年，终于成为一名出色的医生。 Tā qiánxīn xuéxí shí nián, zhōngyú chéngwéi yī míng chūsè de yīshēng. He gave himself up to his studies for ten years and finally became an outstanding doctor.
  • 晚年他潜心写作，写完了三本小说。 Wǎnnián tā qiánxīn xiězuò, xiě wán le sān běn xiǎoshuō. In his later years he devoted himself to writing and finished three novels.

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