- lit. to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea (idiom)
- fig. to elicit no response
Characters
- 石 (石): surname Shi; abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1]
- 沉 (沉): to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy
- 大 (大): big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- 海 (海): surname Hai
Resources
- Wiktionary: 石沉大海
- MDBG: 石沉大海
- Examples with 石沉大海 on Tatoeba
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