淹
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to flood; to submerge; to drown; to irritate the skin (of liquids); to delay
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 水 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 淹
- Common rank
- #3,207
- Unicode
- U+6DF9
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 淹 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 奄 sound ()
Components 氵 奄
How to remember it
inundate · Heisig RSH #2944
水 water + hang glider
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 淹
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淹头搭脑 | listless | |
| 淹水 | to be flooded | |
| 淹死 | to drown | |
| 淹博 | widely read; erudite | |
| 淹没 | to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.) | |
| 淹留 | to stay for a long period | |
| 淹盖 | to submerge; to flood; to drown out | |
| 淹灭 | to submerge; to flood; to bury | |
| 范仲淹 | Fan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳… | |
| 淹灌 | basin irrigation (e.g. paddy fields) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 奄 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奄 sound part | to remain, to tarry; feeble | |
| 掩 | to cover up (with a hand); to ambush, to conceal; to shut | |
| 阉 | eunuch; to castrate | |
| 鹌 | quail; Coturnix coturnix | |
| 崦 | a mountain in Kansu where the sun is supposed to set at night | |
| 俺 | I, me, my (some dialects) | |
| 唵 | to eat with one's hands; used in transliterations | |
| 殗 | sickness; repeated | |
| 埯 | pit, hole; to bury | |
| 罨 | medical compress; fishing net |