Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 淹
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淹 |
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Meaning |
to flood, to submerge, to drown, delay |
Pronunciation |
yān |
Explanation |
Left: water 氵, right: suddenly 奄 (i.e lightning stroke: The big 大 electricity 电 comes suddenly.) [electricity 电 = field 田 with lightning arrester 乚] |
Mnemonic
| If the water comes suddenly, then as a flood, where you drown. |
Radicals
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氵
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Water | |
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奄
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suddenly | |
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电
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electricity | (Field 田 with lightning rod 乚.) |
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乚
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lighting rod | (The use of this component is not consistent. From the character for electricity 电 comes the meaning "lightning rod", although other explanations are used such as "hook" or "kneeling person".) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 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 |
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