淹
yān HSK7

drown

淹 yān
submerge verb
to flood or cover with water

大水淹没了农田。

dà​shuǐ yān mò le nóng​tián.

The flood submerged the farmland.

delay verb
to delay, stay, or linger for a long time

他在外地淹留了数月。

tā zài wài​dì yān liú le shù yuè.

He stayed in another place for several months.

irritate skin verb
to cause skin irritation due to prolonged contact with moisture or liquid

由于换尿布不及时，婴儿的皮肤被尿淹了。

yóu​yú huàn niào​bù bù jí​shí, yīng'ér de pí​fū bèi niào yān le.

Because the diaper wasn't changed in time, the baby developed a rash from the urine.

drown verb
to die or cause death by being submerged in water

他不小心掉进河里淹死了。

tā bù xiǎo​xīn diào jìn hé lǐ yān​sǐ le.

He accidentally fell into the river and drowned.

Cross-References

Has variant

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)