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淪落

简沦落 · 繁淪落

Mandarin · pinyin lún luò

to degenerate
impoverished
to fall (into poverty)
to be reduced (to begging)

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淪: Look up this written character
落: luò · fall, drop; net income, surplus
沦: lún · be lost; sink, be submerged

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2–4 · lun2 luo4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

leon4 lok6

Cantonese word readings for 淪落. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

to wander about destitute; to be stranded
to languish; to decay; to decline; to wane; to be at a low ebb
to sink into; to fall into; to land oneself in; to get bogged down in

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