HSK 6 · Nature

淹没 yānmò “to submerge” in Chinese

Traditional 淹沒

What 淹没 means

  1. to submerge
  2. to flood
  3. to drown out
  4. to drown
  5. to drown out (also fig.)

How to say 淹没

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale淹yān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale没mò4th tone, falling

淹没 in a sentence

  1. 由于全球气候变暖，城市可能被完全地淹没。

    Yóuyú quánqiú qìhòu biàn nuǎn, chéngshì kěnéng bèi wánquán de yānmò.

    Due to global warming, cities could be completely submerged.

    Sentence #777614 from Tatoeba

How 淹没 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 淹 (yān) with each of its parts in a different colour
淹yānto flood
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 奄to remain · yānSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 奄 (yān) hints at the sound. Compare it with yān.

The character 没 (méi) with each of its parts in a different colour
没mòdrowned
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 殳weapon · shūSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 殳 (shū) hints at the sound. Compare it with mò.

Memory aidWater 氵 gives the meaning: it first meant “to sink under water”. Now it is mostly “not have”.

How to write 淹没

淹 11 strokes · 没 7 strokes

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淹没 (yānmò) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 淹没 (yānmò). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 淹没

Words with 没

没méi · no没有méiyǒu · not to have没事méishì · it’s nothing没关系méi guānxi · it’s okay没意思méiyìsi · boring埋没máimò · to bury

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FAQs

淹没 (yānmò) means “to submerge” or “to flood”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yānmò: yān with a 1st tone, then mò with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 淹没 is written 淹沒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yanmo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 淹没 from the suggestions. Typing yanmo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
淹没 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.