Hanja Analyzer
湎

湎 — myeon

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
빠질 면
Romanization
myeon
English
flushed with drink, drunk
Mandarin
miǎn
Japanese on'yomi
メン, ベン
Japanese kun'yomi
おぼ.れる しず.む
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
12
Radical
水 (85, 9 residual)
Phonetic component
面(면)
Unicode
U+6E4E

Parts that make up 湎

  • 氵 물 수variant of 水 흐르는 물줄기물·액체와 관련된 것, 씻고 적시고 흐르는 일
  • 面 낯 면sound 눈을 크게 그린 얼굴얼굴과 겉면

How 湎 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 湎 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 水, 面.

Characters sharing the phonetic 面

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “면” in Korean.

Other hanja read “면”

Other hanja with radical 水

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