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淹

淹

Translingual

Han character

淹 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水大中山 (EKLU), four-corner 34116)

  1. drown
  2. cover with liquid, steep

References

  • KangXi: page 632, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17696
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1038, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1644, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6DF9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 淹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
庵 *qoːm, *qoːb
鵪 *qoːm
菴 *qoːm, *qrom
馣 *qoːm
晻 *qoːmʔ, *qromʔ
唵 *qoːmʔ
黤 *qoːmʔ, *qraːmʔ
埯 *qaːmʔ, *qomʔ
淹 *qroːm, *qrom, *qom, *qoms
閹 *qrom, *qromʔ
崦 *qrom
醃 *qrom, *qom
掩 *qromʔ
奄 *qromʔ
罨 *qromʔ, *qoːb, *qob
裺 *qromʔ, *qoms
俺 *qromʔ, *qoms
腌 *qom, *qrob, *qob
殗 *qob
餣 *qob

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 淹 淹
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 鹽 (154) 嚴 (145)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) Chongniu III III
Fanqie 央炎切 於劔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠiᴇm/ /ʔɨɐmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔᵚiɛm/ /ʔiɐmH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiæm/ /ʔiɐmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔjiam/ /ʔɨamH/
Li
Rong		 /ʔjɛm/ /ʔiɐmH/
Wang
Li		 /ĭɛm/ /ĭɐmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯ɛm/ /ʔi̯ɐmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yān yàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 淹
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjem ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔ(r)om/
English submerge, soak

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 淹 淹 淹 淹
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
No. 14336 14338 14352 14354
Phonetic
component		 奄 奄 奄 奄
Rime
group		 談 談 談 談
Rime
subdivision		 3 3 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 𤟟 淹 醃
Old
Chinese		 /*qroːm/ /*qrom/ /*qom/ /*qoms/
Notes 手冊作淊今字 原列梵韻依王韻改釅

Definitions

淹

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

淹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

淹 • ‎(eom) (hangeul 엄, revised eom, McCune-Reischauer ŏm, Yale em)

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Vietnamese

Han character

淹 (yêm, êm, im, ươm)

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