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沦

lún

Character Traditional 淪

What 沦 means

1. to sink (into ruin, oblivion)
2. to be reduced to

Words starting with 沦

• 沦为lún wéito sink down to; to be reduced to (sth inferior)
• 沦落lún luòto degenerate; impoverished; to fall (into poverty)
• 沦陷lún xiànto fall into enemy hands; to be occupied; to degenerate
• 沦丧lún sàngto be lost; to be ruined; to perish
• 沦亡lún wáng(of a country) to perish; to be annexed; subjugation (to a foreign power)
• 沦没lún mòto sink; to drown
• 沦灭lún mièto perish; extinction
• 沦陷区lún xiàn qūenemy-held territory
• 沦浃lún jiāto be deeply affected; moved to the core
• 沦肌浃髓lún jī jiā suǐlit. penetrate to the marrow (idiom); deeply affected; moved to the core

Words containing 沦

• 沉沦chén lúnto sink into (vice, depravity etc); to pass into oblivion; downfall; passing
• 道德沦丧dào dé lún sàngmoral bankruptcy; moral degeneracy

Characters built on 仑

These share the phonetic component 仑 (lún), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 论lùnopinion; view; theory
• 轮lúnwheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate
• 伦lúnhuman relationship; order; coherence
• 纶lúnto classify; to twist silk; silk thread
• 抡lūnto swing (one's arms, a heavy object); to wave (a sword, one's fists); to fling (money)
• 囵lúnused in 囫囵

Characters that look like 沦

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 法fǎlaw; method; way
• 治zhìto rule; to govern; to manage
• 沿yánalong; to follow (a line, tradition etc); to carry on
• 迭diéalternately; repeatedly
• 沧cāng(bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green; (literary) cold
• 抡lūnto swing (one's arms, a heavy object); to wave (a sword, one's fists); to fling (money)

Sounds the same

Read lún, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 轮wheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate
• 伦human relationship; order; coherence
• 仑to arrange
• 纶to classify; to twist silk; silk thread
• 抡to select
• 囵used in 囫囵
• 婨(used in female names) (old)
• 菕(archaic) tree (exact species unknown)
• 𬬭(metal); roentgenium (chemistry)
• 论abbr. for 论语