淹没 yānmò▶ Inundación; inundar

Stroke order

淹没 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.

• 淹 — 11 strokes
• 没 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. to submerge
2. to drown
3. to flood
4. to drown out (also fig.)

Related words

• 埋没sumergirse en
• 没no
• 没关系No importa

淹没 is pronounced yānmò and means “Inundación; inundar”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 淹没 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.