溺
2 readings · tap one to hear it
to drown; to indulge; addicted to; to spoil (a child)
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 水 +10
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 溺
- Common rank
- #2,781
- Unicode
- U+6EBA
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 溺
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 溺水 | to drown | |
| 自溺 | to drown oneself | |
| 溺死 | to drown | |
| 溺爱 | to spoil; to pamper; to dote on | |
| 溺职 | to neglect one's duty; dereliction of duty | |
| 便溺 | to urinate or defecate; urine and feces | |
| 沉溺 | variant of 沉溺[chen2 ni4] | |
| 沉溺 | (fig.) to indulge in; to wallow in (addiction, vice etc); (literary) to sink into water | |
| 溺亡 | to drown | |
| 遇溺 | (HK) to get into difficulties (in the sea or a swimming pool etc) | |
| 溺婴 | to drown a newborn baby (as method of infanticide) | |
| 宠溺 | to spoil; to indulge | |
| 耽溺 | to indulge in; to wallow in |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 弱 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 弱 sound part | weak, fragile, delicate | |
| 搦 | to grasp, to seize; to challenge, to provoke | |
| 蒻 | cattail; young rush |