淹

Translingual

Han character

淹 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水大中山 (EKLU), four-corner 3411₆)

1. drown
2. cover with liquid, steep

References

• KangXi: page 632, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17696
• Dae Jaweon: page 1038, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1644, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6DF9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

淹 (Yale yim1)

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Japanese

Kanji

淹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: えん (en), よう (yō)
• Kun: ひたす (hitasu), ひさしい (hisashii), とどまる (todomaru)

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Korean

Hanja

淹 (eom) (hangeul 엄, revised eom, McCune-Reischauer ŏm, Yale em)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

淹 (Pinyin yān (yan1), Wade-Giles yen¹)

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Compounds

• 淹沒, 淹没

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Vietnamese

Han character

淹 (yêm, êm, im, ươm)

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