Translingual
Han character
淹 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水大中山 (EKLU), four-corner 34116, composition ⿰氵奄)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 632, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17696
- Dae Jaweon: page 1038, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1644, character 1
- Unihan data for U+6DF9
Chinese
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (
奄)
(Zhengzhang, 2003)
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Old Chinese
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庵
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*qoːm, *qoːb
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鵪
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*qoːm
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菴
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*qoːm, *qrom
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馣
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*qoːm
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晻
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*qoːmʔ, *qromʔ
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唵
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*qoːmʔ
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黤
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*qoːmʔ, *qraːmʔ
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埯
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*qaːmʔ, *qomʔ
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淹
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*qroːm, *qrom, *qom, *qoms
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閹
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*qrom, *qromʔ
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崦
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*qrom
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醃
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*qrom, *qom
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掩
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*qromʔ
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奄
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*qromʔ
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罨
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*qromʔ, *qoːb, *qob
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裺
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*qromʔ, *qoms
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俺
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*qromʔ, *qoms
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腌
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*qom, *qrob, *qob
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殗
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*qob
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餣
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*qob
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Pronunciation
Note:
- im - vernacular;
- iam - literary.
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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淹
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Reading #
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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yān
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Middle Chinese
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‹ ʔjem ›
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Old Chinese
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/*ʔ(r)om/
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English
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submerge, soak
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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淹
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淹
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淹
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淹
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Reading #
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1/4
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2/4
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3/4
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4/4
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No.
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14336
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14338
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14352
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14354
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Phonetic component
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奄
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奄
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奄
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奄
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Rime group
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談
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談
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談
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談
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Rime subdivision
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3
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3
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3
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3
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Corresponding MC rime
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𤟟
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醃
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Old Chinese
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/*qroːm/
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/*qrom/
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/*qom/
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/*qoms/
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Notes
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手冊作淊今字
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原列梵韻依王韻改釅
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Definitions
淹
- to soak; to flood; to drown; to submerge
- (of skin) to be tingling from sweat
- (literary) wide; deep; thorough
- (literary) to stay; to stop over; to be detained
- (literary) to delay; to take a long time
- (literary) slow; sluggish
Compounds
- 悶淹淹 / 闷淹淹
- 故淹珠玉
- 江淹夢筆 / 江淹梦笔
- 江淹夢錦 / 江淹梦锦
- 江淹才盡 / 江淹才尽
- 淹博
- 淹宿
- 淹恤
- 淹旬曠月 / 淹旬旷月
- 淹晷
- 淹月
- 淹死 (yānsǐ)
- 淹殺 / 淹杀
- 淹水 (yānshuǐ)
- 淹沒 / 淹没 (yānmò)
- 淹沉
- 涵淹
- 淹淹一息
- 淹滅 / 淹灭
- 淹滯 / 淹滞
- 淹潤 / 淹润
- 淹灌
- 淹煎
- 淹留
- 淹纏 / 淹缠
- 淹識 / 淹识
- 淹貫 / 淹贯
- 淹踐 / 淹践
- 淹通
- 淹雅
Japanese
Kanji
淹
(Hyōgai kanji)
- dip
- soak
- immerse
- stop
- linger
Readings
Korean
Hanja
淹 • (eom) (hangeul 엄, revised eom, McCune–Reischauer ŏm, Yale em)
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Vietnamese
Han character
淹: Hán Nôm readings: yêm, êm, im, ươm
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