淹 — Chinese character
淹
yān
to drown, to immerse, to steep
- Pinyin
- yān
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 氵 奄
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 奄
- Japanese
- 淹 as a kanji
Common words with 淹
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淹没 (淹沒) | yān mò | to submerge; to drown |
| 淹死 | yān sǐ | to drown |
| 淹水 | yān shuǐ | to be flooded |
| 淹留 | yān liú | to stay for a long period |
| 淹博 | yān bó | widely read; erudite |
| 淹灭 (淹滅) | yān miè | to submerge; to flood |
| 淹灌 | yān guàn | basin irrigation (e.g. paddy fields) |
| 淹盖 (淹蓋) | yān gài | to submerge; to flood |
| 淹头搭脑 (淹頭搭腦) | yān tóu dā nǎo | listless |
English words written with 淹
淹 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.