lún
be lost
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 侖 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 淪
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to degenerate | ||
to sink down to | ||
downfall | ||
to be occupied | ||
to be reduced to |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 2.7711% of movies
2791st most common character in movies
2733rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6DEA |
Shuowen | “淪,小波為淪。从水,侖聲。《詩》曰:‘河水清且淪漪。’一曰沒也。” |
Sources
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