沦
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to sink (into ruin, oblivion); to be reduced to
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 水 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 淪
- Common rank
- #3,007
- Unicode
- U+6CA6
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
sink · Heisig RSH #1712
水 water + lifeguard
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 沦
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 道德沦丧 | moral bankruptcy; moral degeneracy | |
| 沦陷区 | enemy-held territory | |
| 沦为 | to sink down to; to be reduced to (sth inferior) | |
| 沦落 | to degenerate; impoverished; to fall (into poverty); to be reduced (to begging) | |
| 沦没 | to sink; to drown | |
| 沉沦 | to sink into (vice, depravity etc); to pass into oblivion; downfall; passing | |
| 沦灭 | to perish; extinction | |
| 沦丧 | to be lost; to be ruined; to perish; to wither away | |
| 沦亡 | (of a country) to perish; to be annexed; subjugation (to a foreign power) | |
| 沦陷 | to fall into enemy hands; to be occupied; to degenerate; to submerge | |
| 沦肌浃髓 | lit. penetrate to the marrow (idiom); deeply affected; moved to the core | |
| 沦浃 | to be deeply affected; moved to the core |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 仑 — compare how they read.