| 沉没成本 |
chén mò chéng běn |
sunk cost (economics) |
| 沉 |
chén |
variant of 沉 |
| 沉 |
chén |
to submerge / to immerse / to sink / to keep down / to lower / to drop / deep / profound / heavy |
| 沉没 |
chén mò |
to sink |
| 没 |
méi |
(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| 没 |
mò |
drowned / to end / to die / to inundate |
| 成 |
Chéng |
surname Cheng / short name for Chengdu 成都 |
| 成 |
chéng |
to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right / OK! / one tenth |
| 成本 |
chéng běn |
(manufacturing, production etc) costs |
| 本 |
běn |
(bound form) root; stem / (bound form) origin; source / (bound form) one's own; this / (bound form) this; the current (year etc) / (bound form) original / (bound form) inherent / originally; initially / capital; principal / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc |