淹

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What 淹 means

to flood; to submerge; to drown; to irritate the skin (of liquids); to delay

Pictophonetic: semantic 氵 (water), phonetic 奄

Made of 氵 + 奄

Words with 淹

• 淹死yān sǐto drown
• 淹没yān mòto submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.)
• 淹博yān bówidely read; erudite
• 淹水yān shuǐto be flooded
• 淹灭yān mièto submerge; to flood; to bury
• 淹灌yān guànbasin irrigation (e.g. paddy fields)
• 淹留yān liúto stay for a long period
• 淹盖yān gàito submerge; to flood; to drown out
• 淹头搭脑yān tóu dā nǎolistless
• 范仲淹fàn zhòng yānFan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳阳楼记

淹 in a sentence

• 我差一点淹死。

  wǒ chà yì diǎn yān sǐ 。

  I came near to being drowned.

• 我差点被淹死。

  wǒ chà diǎn bèi yān sǐ 。

  I almost drowned.

• 有人把她淹死在浴缸里。

  yǒu rén bǎ tā yān sǐ zài yù gāng lǐ 。

  Somebody had drowned her in the bathtub.

• 她差点被淹死。

  tā chà diǎn bèi yān sǐ 。

  She came near being drowned.

• 由于全球气候变暖，城市可能被完全地淹没。

  yóu yú quán qiú qì hòu biàn nuǎn ， chéng shì kě néng bèi wán quán dì yān mò 。

  Due to global warming, cities could be completely submerged.

Characters that sound like 淹

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