淹没 yānmò▶ น้ำท่วม, อุทกภัย

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จมดิ่งอยู่กับ, หมกมุ่นอยู่กับ
• 没ไม่
• 没关系ไม่เป็นไร

淹没 is pronounced yānmò and means “น้ำท่วม, อุทกภัย”. 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.