chìm nổi

/t͡ɕim˨˩ noj˧˩/
VIETNAMCA → TR

Tanım

•to sink and then float (especially repeatedly) · to struggle in the vicissitudes

Etimoloji

chìm (“to be sunk”) + nổi (“to float”), calque of Chinese 沉浮 (trầm phù, “to sink and then float”).