淪

See also: 沦

淪	U+6DEA, 淪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DEA

← 淩
[U+6DE9]

CJK Unified Ideographs

淫 →
[U+6DEB]

Translingual

Han character

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

to sink (into ruin), decline, fall
be lost
to sink, be submerged

References

KangXi: page 631, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17675
Dae Jaweon: page 1033, character 10
Hanyu Da Zidian: 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, OC *run) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 侖 (OC *run).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lún (lun²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁴
Min Nan (POJ): lûn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: lún
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄣˊ
  - Wade–Giles: lun²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luen
  - IPA ^(key): /lu̯ən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: leon⁴
  - Yale: lèuhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: lên⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /lɵn²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lûn
  - Tâi-lô: lûn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: luun
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lun²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lun²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lun¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lun²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lun²³/

Middle Chinese: /liuɪn/▼

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
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

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*run/

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

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Compounds

奫淪／奫沦
沉淪／沉沦 (chénlún)
浹髓淪肌／浃髓沦肌
浹髓淪膚／浃髓沦肤
淪亡／沦亡 (lúnwáng)
淪喪／沦丧 (lúnsàng)
淪敗／沦败
淪替／沦替
淪棄／沦弃

淪波舟／沦波舟
淪漣／沦涟
淪漪／沦漪
淪肌浹髓／沦肌浃髓
淪胥／沦胥
淪落／沦落 (lúnluò)
淪落人／沦落人
淪跡／沦迹
淪陷／沦陷 (lúnxiàn)

淪陷區／沦陷区 (lúnxiànqū)
混淪／混沦 (hùndùn)
渾淪／浑沦 (húnlún)
漂淪／漂沦
鄧虜淪敦／邓虏沦敦
隱淪／隐沦
鱗淪／鳞沦
鶻淪／鹘沦

Japanese

Kanji

淪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

ripples
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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