Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- yān
English
- drown
- to flood
- cover with liquid, steep
- to submerge
- to drown
- to irritate the skin (of liquids)
- to delay
- to flood; to submerge
粵語
- 被水覆蓋
Variants
Words containing 淹
- 淹沒jim1 mut6
to submerge
- 淹滅jim1 mit6
to submerge
- 淹尖jim1 zim1
(adjective) picky; fastidious
- 淹灌jim1 gun3
basin irrigation (e.g. paddy fields)
- 淹死jim1 sei2
to drown
- 淹水jim1 seoi2
to be flooded
- 淹留jim1 lau4
to stay for a long period
- 淹蓋jim1 koi3
to submerge
- 淹博jim1 bok3
widely read
- 淹溺jim1 nik1
- 范仲淹faan6 zung6 jim1
Fan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4 yang2 Lou2 Ji4]
- 淹尖聲悶jim1 zim1 seng1 mun6
fussy; hard to please; picky; choosy
- 淹頭搭腦jim1 tau4 daap3 nou5
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