# 淹

| 淹 | U+6DF9, &#28153; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DF9 |
| ← 淸 [U+6DF8] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 淺 → [U+6DFA] |
| 淹 | U+2F90E, &#194830; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F90E |
| ← 𣻑 [U+2F90D] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement | 潮 → [U+2F90F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

淹 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水大中山 (EKLU), four-corner 3411$_6$, composition ⿰氵奄)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 632, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17696
* Dae Jaweon: page 1038, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1644, character 1
* Unihan data for U+6DF9
* Unihan data for U+2F90E

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 庵 | *qoːm, *qoːb |
| 鵪 | *qoːm |
| 菴 | *qoːm, *qrom |
| 馣 | *qoːm |
| 晻 | *qoːmʔ, *qromʔ |
| 唵 | *qoːmʔ |
| 黤 | *qoːmʔ, *qraːmʔ |
| 埯 | *qaːmʔ, *qomʔ |
| 淹 | *qroːm, *qrom, *qom, *qoms |
| 閹 | *qrom, *qromʔ |
| 崦 | *qrom |
| 醃 | *qrom, *qom |
| 掩 | *qromʔ |
| 奄 | *qromʔ |
| 罨 | *qromʔ, *qoːb, *qob |
| 裺 | *qromʔ, *qoms |
| 俺 | *qromʔ, *qoms |
| 腌 | *qom, *qrob, *qob |
| 殗 | *qob |
| 餣 | *qob |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): yān (yan$^1$)
       (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢ
    (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): ngan$^1$
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jim$^1$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yim
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): im / iam
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yān
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yan
*** Wade–Giles: yen$^1$
*** Yale: yān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ian
*** Palladius: янь (janʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /jɛn⁵⁵/
** (Chengdu)
*** Sichuanese Pinyin: ngan$^1$
*** Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: ngan
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋan⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jim$^1$
*** Yale: yīm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jim$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yim$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiːm⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yim
*** Hakka Romanization System: im
*** Hagfa Pinyim: yim$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /im⁵⁵/
** (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yim
*** Hakka Romanization System: (r)im
*** Hagfa Pinyim: yim$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /(j)im⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: im
*** Tâi-lô: im
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ym
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /im⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /im³³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iam
*** Tâi-lô: iam
*** Phofsit Daibuun: iafm
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /iam⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /iam³³/
* im - vernacular;
* iam - literary.
* Middle Chinese: 'jem, 'jaemH
Rime :
| Character | 淹 | 淹 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 鹽 (154) | 嚴 (145) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 央炎切 | 於劔切 |
| Baxter | 'jem | 'jaemH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔˠiᴇm/ | /ʔɨɐm$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔᵚiɛm/ | /ʔiɐm$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔiæm/ | /ʔiɐm$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔjiam/ | /ʔɨam$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔjɛm/ | /ʔiɐm$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ĭɛm/ | /ĭɐm$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔi̯ɛm/ | /ʔi̯ɐm$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yān | yàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jim$^1$ | jim$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔ(r)om/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qroːm/, /*qrom/, /*qom/, /*qoms/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 淹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yān |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ʔjem › |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔ(r)om/ |
| English | submerge, soak |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 淹 | 淹 | 淹 | 淹 |
| Reading # | 1/4 | 2/4 | 3/4 | 4/4 |
| No. | 14336 | 14338 | 14352 | 14354 |
| Phonetic component | 奄 | 奄 | 奄 | 奄 |
| Rime group | 談 | 談 | 談 | 談 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 𤟟 | 淹 | 醃 | |
| Old Chinese | /*qroːm/ | /*qrom/ | /*qom/ | /*qoms/ |
| Notes | 手冊作淊今字 | | | 原列梵韻依王韻改釅 |

### Definitions

淹
* to soak; to flood; to drown; to submerge
* (of skin) to be tingling from sweat
* (literary) wide; deep; thorough
* (literary) to stay; to stop over; to be detained
* (literary) to delay; to take a long time
* (literary) slow; sluggish

#### Compounds

* 悶淹淹／闷淹淹
* 故淹珠玉
* 江淹夢筆／江淹梦笔
* 江淹夢錦／江淹梦锦
* 江淹才盡／江淹才尽
* 淹博
* 淹宿
* 淹恤
* 淹旬曠月／淹旬旷月
* 淹晷
* 淹月
* 淹死 (yānsǐ)
* 淹殺／淹杀
* 淹水 (yānshuǐ)
* 淹沒／淹没 (yānmò)
* 淹沉
* 涵淹
* 淹淹一息
* 淹滅／淹灭
* 淹滯／淹滞
* 淹潤／淹润
* 淹灌
* 淹煎
* 淹留
* 淹纏／淹缠
* 淹識／淹识
* 淹貫／淹贯
* 淹踐／淹践
* 淹通
* 淹雅

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* dip
* soak
* immerse
* stop
* linger

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): えん (en)、よう (yō)
* Kun: ひたす (hitasu)、ひさしい (hisashī)、とどまる (todomaru)
* Nanori: ひさ (hisa)

## Korean
### Hanja

淹 • (eom) (hangeul 엄, revised eom, McCune–Reischauer ŏm, Yale em)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

淹: Hán Nôm readings: yêm, êm, im, ươm
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