Chinese symbol for “drown”
淹死
yān sǐ
to drown
The closest CC-CEDICT match for drown is 淹死 (yān sǐ), defined as: to drown.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “drown”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 溺水 | nì shuǐ | to drown |
| 溺 | nì | to drown; to indulge |
| 溺死 | nì sǐ | to drown |
| 溺亡 | nì wáng | to drown |
| 灭 (滅) | miè | to extinguish or put out; to go out (of a fire etc) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 淹死.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 淹没 (淹沒) | yān mò | to submerge; 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 |
| 死亡 | sǐ wáng | to die; death |
| 杀死 (殺死) | shā sǐ | to kill |
| 死刑 | sǐ xíng | death penalty; capital punishment |
See also: Japanese symbol for “drown”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.