沉

to submerge / to immerse / to sink / to keep down / to lower / to drop / deep / profound / heavy

沉 = 冗 + 氵 : Charlie Chaplin is experimenting with superfluous liquid helium and a bottle of water just inside the encampment's kitchen. He lets the water flow into the liquid helium, and because the water is frozen instantly, it sinks and submerges.

沉 character breakdown

沉
- 冗
  - 冖
  - 几
- 氵
  - ⺀
    - 丶
  - ㇀

冗

rǒng = ru + (e)ng3

extraneous / redundant / superfluous / busy schedule

冗 = 冖 + 几 : Rachel Rhinoceros is looking at some liquid helium, stored in a cooking top on a table inside of the engine. Because it's superfluous, it creeps along the cooking top and flows out of it.

冗

宂

rǒng = ru + (e)ng3

variant of 冗[rong3]

氵

shuǐ = shu + ei3

"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

氵 = ⺀ + ㇀ : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.