溺

溺 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水弓一一 (ENMM), four-corner 3712₇, composition ⿰氵弱)

• 𡀡, 𡣄, 𦡥, 𬉪

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 641, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17990
• Dae Jaweon: page 1048, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1710, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6EBA

• Unihan data for U+F9EC

Historical forms of the character 溺
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *njewɢ, *neːwɢ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 弱 (OC *njewɢ).

Schuessler (2007) proposes the following possibilities:

• Related to Burmese နစ် (nac, “to sink; to drown”), Burmese နှစ် (hnac, “to immerse”), but the vowels do not agree.
• Related to Burmese နှိုက်း (hnuik:, “to penetrate; to put one's hand into”).

溺

1. to drown; to submerge
2. to indulge; to be addicted
3. a surname

溺

1. Alternative form of 尿 (“urine; to urinate”)

溺

1. ^‡ Alternative form of 弱 (ruò, “name of a river”)
2. ^† Alternative form of 弱 (ruò, “weak”)

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to drown
2. (rare) urine

• Go-on: にゃく (nyaku)、にょう (nyō)^{←ねう (neu, historical)}
• Kan-on: でき (deki, Jōyō)、じょう (jō)^{←でう (deu, historical)}
• Kun: おぼれる (oboreru, 溺れる, Jōyō)、いばり (ibari, 溺)

From Middle Chinese 溺 (MC nek).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

溺

Wikisource

溺 (eumhun 빠질 닉 (ppajil nik), word-initial (South Korea) 빠질 익 (ppajil ik))

1. hanja form^? of 닉/익 (“drown”)

Related to Middle Chinese 尿 (MC newH).

溺 (eumhun 오줌 뇨 (ojum nyo), word-initial (South Korea) 오줌 요 (ojum yo))

1. Alternative form of 尿 (“hanja form^? of 뇨/요 (“urine”)”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

溺: Hán Nôm readings: nịch, niệu, nịu

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