淪

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See also: 沦
淪 U+6DEA, 淪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DEA
← 淩
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 淫 →
淪 U+F9D6, 淪
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9D6
← 崙
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 輪 →

Translingual

Han character

淪 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水人一月 (EOMB), four-corner 38127, composition ⿰氵侖)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 631, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17675
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1033, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1653, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6DEA

Chinese

trad. 淪
simp. 沦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (侖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蜦 *ruːls, *run
綸 *kruːn, *ɡ·run
論 *ruːn, *ruːns, *run
崘 *ruːn
掄 *ruːn, *run
菕 *ruːn
惀 *ruːnʔ, *run
睔 *ɡ·ruːnʔ, *kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
碖 *ruːnʔ, *ruːns
溣 *ruːns
倫 *run
淪 *run
輪 *run
侖 *run
陯 *run
鯩 *run
棆 *run
踚 *run
耣 *runʔ
錀 *pqʰlun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *run) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 侖 (OC *run).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 淪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 諄 (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力迍切
Baxter lwin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/liuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lʷin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ljuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lwin/
Li
Rong 		/liuĕn/
Wang
Li 		/lĭuĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/li̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lún
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		leon4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 淪
Reading # 1/1
No. 8662
Phonetic
component 		侖
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		淪
Old
Chinese 		/*run/

Definitions

淪

  1. ripple; small waves
  2. to sink; to become submerged; to be engulfed
  3. to sink (into ruin); to decline; to fall
  4. to be lost; to disappear; to become nothing

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

淪

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. ripples
  2. sink

Readings

  • Go-on: りん (rin)
  • Kan-on: りん (rin)
  • On: ろん (ron)
  • Kun: しずむ (shizumu, 淪む)

Korean

Hanja

淪 • (ryun>yun, non) (hangeul 륜>윤, 논, revised ryun>yun, non, McCune–Reischauer ryun>yun, non, Yale lyun>yun, non)

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Vietnamese

Han character

淪: Hán Nôm readings: lún

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