沦 (lún): to sink (into ruin, oblivion), to be reduced to
沦 (lún) is a Chinese character meaning “to sink (into ruin, oblivion).” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (semantic) and 仑 (phonetic). It ranks #2701 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 沦 water. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 河 (hé, river), 海 (hǎi, sea), 洋 (yáng, ocean).
Definitions
- to sink (into ruin, oblivion)
- to be reduced to
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沦落verb | lún luò | to degenerate |
| 沉沦verb | chén lún | to sink into (vice, depravity etc) |
| 沦为verb | lún wéi | to sink down to |
| 沦陷verb | lún xiàn | to fall into enemy hands |
| 沦丧verb | lún sàng | to be lost |
| 沦亡verb | lún wáng | (of a country) to perish |
| 道德沦丧 | dào dé lún sàng | moral bankruptcy |
| 沦没 | lún mò | to sink |
| 沦陷区noun | lún xiàn qū | enemy-held territory |
| 沦灭 | lún miè | to perish |
| 沦浃 | lún jiā | to be deeply affected |
| 沦肌浃髓 | lún jī jiā suǐ | lit. penetrate to the marrow (idiom) |
沦 appears in 12 compound words: 83 as the first character, 8 as the last, and 8 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 沦 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
时运无常 谁也不知道它会在哪里沉沦。
shí yùn wú cháng shéi yě bù zhī dào tā huì zài nǎ lǐ chén lún .
Fortune is fickle; no one knows where it will lead.
粉丝们担心,这部新作又会沦为一部敷衍了事的改编作品,重蹈此前无数改编影片的覆辙。
fěn sī men dān xīn , zhè bù xīn zuò yòu huì lún wéi yī bù fū yǎn le shì de gǎi biān zuò pǐn , chóng dǎo cǐ qián wú shǔ gǎi biān yǐng piàn de fù zhé .
Fans are worried that this new film will end up being yet another half-hearted adaptation, following in the footsteps of countless previous adaptations.
记录已经沦为现代人下意识的肌肉记忆,但真正掷地有声的作品却依旧稀缺。
jì lù yǐ jīng lún wéi xiàn dài rén xià yì shí de jī ròu jì yì , dàn zhēn zhèng zhì dì yǒu shēng de zuò pǐn què yī jiù xī quē .
Writing has become second nature to modern people, but truly impactful works remain scarce.
唯有实力与成绩才是立足之本,脱离赛场的荣誉,终究转瞬即逝、沦为昙花一现。
wéi yǒu shí lì yǔ chéng jì cái shì lì zú zhī běn , tuō lí sài chǎng de róng yù , zhōng jiū zhuǎn shùn jí shì , lún wéi 昙 huā yī xiàn .
Only true ability and achievements are the foundation of one’s standing; honors outside the arena are ultimately fleeting and amount to nothing more than a flash in the pan.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 氵 (water) component
Homophones — Characters pronounced lún
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