耽溺
dān​nì

indulge

耽 dān indulge in

Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 冘 represents the sound. Simplified form of 躭.

Components

耳
耳 Meaning component
ěr ear
冘
冘 Sound component
yín, yóu to move on

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttom[t-q]ˤ[ə]mtake pleasure
Zhengzhangʔl'uːm
Unicodedom

說文解字

耳大垂也。从耳冘聲。《詩》曰：“士之耽兮。”

Sources

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Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
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Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

溺 nì, niào, ruò submerge in water

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 弱 represents the sound.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

弱
弱 Sound component
ruò weak

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartneknˤewk to sink in water
newHkə.nˤewk-s urine

說文解字

《說文》：“溺，水。自張掖刪丹西至酒泉合黎，餘波入于流沙。从水，弱聲。桑欽所說。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)