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湮没

yān mò

2-character word Traditional 湮沒

What 湮没 means

1. to bury
2. to submerge
3. to pass into oblivion
4. to obliterate
5. to annihilate (physics)

The characters in 湮没

• 湮yān(literary) to sink into oblivion; (literary) to silt up; Taiwan pr. yīn
• 没méi(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not

Words starting with 湮没

• 湮没无闻yān mò wú wénto pass into oblivion

Sounds the same

Read yān mò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 淹没to submerge; to drown; to flood

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