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湮

yān

Character

What 湮 means

1. literaryto sink into oblivion
2. literaryto silt up
3. Taiwan pr. yīn

Other readings

湮 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yīnvariant of {洇|yīn}

Words starting with 湮

• 湮没yān mòto bury; to submerge; to pass into oblivion
• 湮灭yān mièto sink into oblivion; to bury in obscurity
• 湮没无闻yān mò wú wénto pass into oblivion

Characters that look like 湮

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

• 滚gǔnto boil; to roll; to take a hike
• 漠mòdesert; unconcerned
• 溃kuì(bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike…
• 渲xuànwash (color)
• 匮kuìto lack; lacking; empty
• 渍zìto soak; to be stained; stain

Sounds the same

Read yān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 烟cigarette or pipe tobacco; smoke; mist
• 淹to flood; to submerge; to drown
• 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
• 胭rouge
• 啱correct; suitable; to suit sb
• 鄢used in 鄢陵
• 恹used in 恹恹