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Mythic Mandarin

淹没 (yān mò): meaning and stroke order

淹没 (yān mò) means to submerge, to drown, to flood, to drown out (also fig.).

淹没

Simplified
淹没
Traditional
淹沒
Pinyin
yān mò

Stroke order of 淹没

淹

  • yān to flood; to submerge
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

没

  • méi (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
  • mò drowned; to end
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 沒

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 淹没

  1. yān mò Traditional 淹沒
    • to submerge
    • to drown
    • to flood
    • to drown out (also fig.)

Radicals of the characters

淹
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 11 strokes · 氵 on the left, 奄 on the right
没
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes · 氵 on the left, 殳 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

淹没 in our stories

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  • 这下可闯祸了。龙王找到李靖，要求他交出儿子，不然就要淹没整个陈塘关。

    zhè xià kě chuǎnghuò le Lóngwáng zhǎodào Lǐ Jìng yāoqiú tā jiāo chū érzi bùrán jiù yào yānmò zhěng gè Chéntángguān

    Now he had really caused a disaster. The Dragon King found Li Jing and demanded he hand over his son, or he would drown the whole of Chentang Pass.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 淹没

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).