Memory phrase for the character: 淹

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to flood, to submerge, to drown, delay

yān

Left: water 氵, right: suddenly 奄 (i.e lightning strike: The big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning arrester 乚]

If the water comes suddenly, then as a flood, where you drown.

氵	water	Simplified from this water 水
奄	suddenly	The lower part 电 means 'electricity' and was simplified from 電, wherein during rain the lightning rod 乚 in the field has electricity. The big 大 electricity 电 refers to a lightning flash that comes suddenly.
电	electricity	Field 田 with lightning rod 乚.
乚	lighting rod	The use of this component is not consistent. From the character for electricity 电 comes the meaning "lightning rod". Also other explanations are used such as "hook" or "kneeling person".

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淹没	yān mò	to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.)
范仲淹	Fàn Zhòng yān	Fan Zhongyan (989-1052), minister of Northern Song, led failed reform of 1043; also writer and author of On Yueyang Tower
淹盖	yān gài	to submerge; to flood; to drown out
淹盖	yān gài

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