溺
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to drown; to indulge; addicted to; to spoil (a child)
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Dict coverage rank #2,781 U+6EBA
How 溺 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 弱 (phonetic, ruò)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 弱
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 弱 (ruò) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 弱 sound component | ruò | weak, fragile, delicate |
| 搦 | nuò | to grasp, to seize; to challenge, to provoke |
| 蒻 | ruò | cattail; young rush |
Words containing 溺
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 溺水 | nì shuǐ | to drown |
| 自溺 | zì nì | to drown oneself |
| 溺死 | nì sǐ | to drown |
| 溺爱 | nì ài | to spoil; to pamper; to dote on |
| 溺职 | nì zhí | to neglect one's duty; dereliction of duty |
| 便溺 | biàn niào | to urinate or defecate; urine and feces |
| 沉溺 | chén nì | variant of 沉溺[chen2 ni4] |
| 沉溺 | chén nì | (fig.) to indulge in; to wallow in (addiction, vice etc); (literary) to sink into water |
| 溺亡 | nì wáng | to drown |
| 遇溺 | yù nì | (HK) to get into difficulties (in the sea or a swimming pool etc) |
| 溺婴 | nì yīng | to drown a newborn baby (as method of infanticide) |
| 宠溺 | chǒng nì | to spoil; to indulge |
| 耽溺 | dān nì | to indulge in; to wallow in |