# 淪

| 淪 | U+6DEA, &#28138; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DEA |
| ← 淩 [U+6DE9] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 淫 → [U+6DEB] |
| 淪 | U+F9D6, &#63958; 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 3812$_7$, 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
### Glyph origin

| | 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 (lun$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): leon$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lûn
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lún
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lún
*** Wade–Giles: lun$^2$
*** Yale: lwún
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luen
*** Palladius: лунь (lunʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /lu̯ən³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: leon$^4$
*** Yale: lèuhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: loen$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lên$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɵn²¹/
* Southern Min
** (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: 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/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /li̯uĕn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | lún |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | leon$^4$ |
* 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

(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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