淹
yān HSK7

drown

淹 yān
to drown verbparticle
to drown or perish in water
to flood; to soak verb
to flood; to submerge; to soak or steep in liquid

厨房被水淹了。

chú​fáng bèi shuǐ yān le.

The kitchen was flooded.

to irritate the skin
to irritate the skin, such as from contact with sweat, tears, or urine
(bound form) to stay
(bound form) to stay for a long time; to remain or be stranded; to delay
(bound form) well-read
(bound form) well-read; erudite; deep and broad in knowledge
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Has variant

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,580th most common 17.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,272nd most common 12.7 per million appears in 7% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.79 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
4.03 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+6DF9

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)