Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- lún
English
- be lost
- to sink (into ruin, oblivion)
- to fall; to be reduced to; to deteriorate
- sink, be submerged
- to be reduced to
粵語
- 變成一啲唔好、低下嘅嘢；變差、變壞
Variants
Words containing 淪
- 淪為leon4 wai4
to sink down to
- 淪陷leon4 haam6
to fall into enemy hands
- 淪落leon4 lok6
to degenerate
- 沉淪cam4 leon4
to sink into (vice, depravity etc)
- 淪喪leon4 song3
to be lost
- 淪亡leon4 mong4
(of a country) to perish
- 淪沒leon4 mut6
to sink
- 淪滅leon4 mit6
to perish
- 淪浹leon4 zip3
to be deeply affected
- 淪陷區leon4 haam6 keoi1
enemy-held territory
- 道德淪喪dou6 dak1 leon4 song1
moral bankruptcy
- 淪肌浹髓leon4 gei1 zip3 seoi5
lit. penetrate to the marrow (idiom); deeply affected
- 同是天涯淪落人tung4 si6 tin1 ngaai4 leon4 lok6 jan4
Those with the same misfortune sympathize with each other.