淹

The character "淹" has 11 strokes. "淹" is one of the 3500 commonly used characters. The character "淹" has 1 pronunciations, . The pronunciations of "淹" are "yān" . View the stroke order of "淹">>

The basic meaning of the Chinese character "淹"

v.: soak; flood; submerge; inundate; drown; (of sweat, tears, etc) irritate the skin

adj.: prolonged

• soak : v.浸透；浸湿；征收重费；征收重税；狂饮；酗酒；浸入；使湿透；透过；完全渗透
• flood : n.洪水；水灾；眼泪的涌出；感情的迸发；涨潮；海洋；溪流；灭世洪水；江河
• submerge : v.浸没；淹没；潜入水中；没入水中；湮没；湮灭；使沉浸
• inundate : v.淹没；泛滥；使满溢；压倒；控制；制服
• drown : v.淹死；溺死；淹没；浸没；将…溺毙；使溺死；使淹死；盖过；淹没于（或受困于）大量的某物中；给食物盖
• prolonged : adj.拖延的；拖长的；冗长的

Form words with "淹"

Example phrases using "淹"

• 我问她，张阿姨，你家还淹咸菜吗？

  I ask her, Aunt Zhang, your family also floods the brined vegetable?

• 或者自己在家中淹榨菜来吃。

  Or their own home flooded eat mustard.

• 说古代有一个叫淹的国家。

  There was an ancient state called Yan.

• 这两个家伙以及和我玩的那只狗将我淹进水里，我的梦就结束了。

  Somehow I end up in water and the the 2 greyhounds and the dog that was play-biting me are drowning me.

• 河岸森林部分被浸没和淹倒，从空中鸟瞰它看起来，像是成千上万的被中世纪巨人放到的火柴梗。

  Riparian forest is partially drowned and downfallen and from the bird’s eye view it looks like there are thousand of matches accidentally dropped by some medieval giant.