淪

See also: 沦

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

← 淩
[U+6DE9]

CJK Unified Ideographs

淫 →
[U+6DEB]

淪	U+F9D6, 淪 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9D6

← 崙
[U+F9D5]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

輪 →
[U+F9D7]

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

Unihan data for U+F9D6

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lún (lun²)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): lùn

(Hailu, HRS): lun
Eastern Min (BUC): lùng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): long² / luong²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lûn

(Teochew, Peng'im): lung⁵
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁶len / ²len / ²leen / ²loen
- (Jinhua): ²len

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lún
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lún
  - Wade–Giles: lun²
  - Yale: lwún
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luen
  - Palladius: лунь (lunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: leon⁴
  - Yale: lèuhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: lên⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵn²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lùn
  - Hakka Romanization System: lun^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: lun²
  - Sinological IPA: /lun¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: lun
  - Sinological IPA: /lun⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: lùng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃uŋ⁵³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: long²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: leóng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: luong²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /luoŋ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lûn
  - Tâi-lô: lûn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: luun
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /lun²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /lun²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /lun¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /lun²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /lun²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lung⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lûng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /luŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶len
  - MiniDict: len^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³len
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lən²³/
- (Northern: Jiading, Songjiang, Chongming, Suzhou, Changzhou, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Ningbo)
  - Wugniu: ²len
  - MiniDict: len^平
  - Sinological IPA (Jiading): /ləŋ³¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Songjiang): /ləŋ³¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Chongming): /ɦlən²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /lən²²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Changzhou): /ləŋ¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /lən³¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /len²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /ləŋ³¹³/
- (Northern: Shaoxing)
  - Wugniu: ²leen
  - MiniDict: len^平
  - Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /lẽ²³¹/
- (Northern: Shaoxing)
  - Wugniu: ²loen
  - MiniDict: loeon^平
  - Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /lø̃²³¹/
- (Jinhua)
  - Wugniu: ²len
  - Sinological IPA (Jinhua): /ləŋ³¹³/

Middle Chinese: lwin

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/
Bernhard Karlgren	/li̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	leon⁴

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

ripple; small waves
to sink; to become submerged; to be engulfed
to sink (into ruin); to decline; to fall
to be lost; to disappear; to become nothing

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
混淪 / 混沦
淪漪 / 沦漪
淪漣 / 沦涟
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)
淪隱 / 沦隐
湮淪 / 湮沦
渾淪 / 浑沦
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

(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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