Chinese Character 淪 Meanings and components.

Form

淪

Meaning

淪 meaning[3] in English

To Sink (Into Ruin, Oblivion).

To Be Reduced To.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 淪 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'water' radical in … (氵) , and to arrange (侖)

Its radical[1] is: 水 (shui3) which means: Surname Shui, .水shui3surname Shui

In cangjie it is written with EOMB

How to write 淪

To write淪lun2to sink … you should write a combination of 氵shui5'water' radical … , 侖lun2to arrange arranged in a 吅 shape:

氵 + 侖 = 淪

淪 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 淪 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 淪, looks as follow:

淪
Pinyin:lun2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Sink (Into Ruin, Oblivion) . To Be Reduced To
氵
Pinyin:shui5
Meaning[3]: 'Water' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 85), Occurring In 没, 法, 流 Etc . See Also 三點水|三点水[San1 Dian3 Shui3]
侖
Pinyin:lun2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Arrange
亼
Pinyin:ji2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 集[Ji2]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
𠕁
Pinyin:cong2 Shape:+
冂
Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]
卄
Pinyin:nian4 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Twenty, Twentieth

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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