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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *灭* | 灭* | *灭
to extinguish or put out / to go out (of a fire etc) / to exterminate or wipe out / to drown
HSK 6
(idiom) to drown one's sorrows
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *淹* | 淹* | *淹
to flood / to submerge / to drown / to irritate the skin (of liquids) / to delay
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *没* | 没* | *没
drowned / to end / to die / to inundate
to drown oneself by jumping into the river
to jump into a river to drown oneself
lit. to beat a drowning dog (idiom) / fig. to pulverize an (already defeated) enemy / to hit sb when he's down
to get drunk; to drown one's sorrows
to drown
to drown
to drown
mythological bird, reincarnation of drowned daughter Nüwa 女娃 of Fiery Emperor 炎帝
to be drowned (figurative and literal)
Chen Tianhua (1875-1905), anti-Qing revolutionary from Hunan, drowned himself in Japan in 1905
to drown a newborn baby (as method of infanticide)
alcohol drunk to drown one's sorrows
to drown sb in a wicker basket, a form of 沉潭
a person who looks drenched and bedraggled / like a drowned rat / deep distress
to scuttle (a ship) / to drown oneself
to submerge / to flood / to drown out
lit. to be buried in the bellies of fish (idiom) / fig. to drown
Wei Sheng (legendary character who waited for his love under a bridge until he was drowned in the surging waters) / sb who keeps to their word no matter what
mythological daughter of Fiery Emperor 炎帝 who turned into bird Jingwei 精衛|精卫 after drowning
to submerge / to drown / to flood / to drown out (also fig.)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *溺* | 溺* | *溺
to drown / to indulge / addicted to / to spoil (a child)
to sink / to drown
to drown oneself
to drown
to jump into a well (to drown oneself, esp. of ladies in fiction)


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