to inundate / to bury / to cover up / obscured / submerged
variant of 洇[yin1]

湮 character breakdown

to restrain / to dam a stream and change its direction / a mound
"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.

Characters with 湮 as component

湮 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 湮

to destroy / to disappear / annihilation
to bury / to submerge / to pass into oblivion / to obliterate / to annihilate (physics)

Sentences with 湮

湮 currently does not appear in any sentence.