yānyīn

bury

A dammed  stream  also provides the pronunciation

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

垔 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

yīn

  

dam up, block, restrain

Evolution

湮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
湮 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

yān

bury, sink, block up; stain; to inundate; to bury; to cover up; obscured; submerged

 

yīn

variant of [yīn]

Most common words with 湮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

湮灭

to destroy

湮没

to bury

to bury

湮没无闻

to pass into oblivion

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4059th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+6E6E

Shuowen

“湮,沒也。从水,垔聲。”


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