Memory phrase for the Kanji: 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 strike: 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

waterSimplified from this water 水
suddenlyThe 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.
electricityField 田 with lightning rod 乚.
lighting rodThe 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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 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
淹盖 yān gài  


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