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Kanji Detail for 淪 - "ripple, sink, decline, perish"
淪
- Meaning
淪 means "ripple, sink, decline, perish."
Ripple - Small waves.
Sink - To submerge.
Decline - To fall from grace.
Perish - To be destroyed.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
sink; ripple
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
be lost; sink, be submerged
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to sink (into ruin, oblivion); to be reduced to
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
sunk, submerged; to perish, to be lost
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Ripples on water. The Book of Odes says: "The river water is clear and rippling" (河水清且淪猗). | To lead or involve. The meaning of leading and pulling together. The Book of Odes says: "They led each other into disaster" (淪胥以鋪), meaning even the innocent were implicated in disaster. | To sink. As in burying talent in lowly positions is called 沈淪 (to sink into obscurity). Lost documents and old records gradually disappearing is called 淪亡, 淪替. | 渾淪 (Hun-lun). An undifferentiated appearance. As in "undifferentiated primordial energy" (渾淪元氣).
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