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淹

yān

HSK 6 Character

What 淹 means

1. to flood
2. to submerge
3. to drown
4. to irritate the skin (of liquids)
5. to delay

Example sentences

• 他几乎淹死。
  He almost drowned.
• 他被淹死了。
  He was drowned.
• 我差一点淹死。
  I came near to being drowned.
• 我差点被淹死。
  I almost drowned.
• 她差点被淹死。
  She came near being drowned.
• 我想看你淹死。
  I want to watch you drown.

Words starting with 淹

• 淹没yān mòto submerge; to drown; to flood
• 淹死yān sǐto drown
• 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

Words containing 淹

• 范仲淹Fàn Zhòng yānFan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower…

Characters built on 奄

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

• 掩yǎnto cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc)…
• 俺ǎnI (northern dialects)
• 阉yānto castrate; a castrate; neuter
• 鹌ānused in 鹌鹑
• 庵ānhut; small temple; nunnery
• 唵ǎn(interjection) oh!; (dialect) to stuff sth in one's mouth…
• 崦yānname of a mountain in Gansu
• 罨yǎnfoment; valve

Characters that look like 淹

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

• 渔yúfisherman; to fish
• 掩yǎnto cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc)…
• 浩hàogrand; vast (water)
• 俺ǎnI (northern dialects)
• 腌āused in 腌臜; Taiwan pr. āng
• 淩língvariant of 凌

Sounds the same

Read yān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 烟cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist
• 焉where; how
• 殷dark red
• 阉to castrate; a castrate; neuter
• 嫣(literary) lovely; sweet
• 腌to salt; to pickle; to cure (meat)
• 咽throat; pharynx; narrow pass
• 湮(literary) to sink into oblivion; (literary) to silt up; Taiwan pr. yīn
• 胭rouge
• 啱correct; suitable; to suit sb
• 鄢used in 鄢陵
• 恹used in 恹恹