ENESFRDE中文

Characters, words, pinyin or English

涝 lào to inundate

to inundate; to flood; flooded

How to remember 涝: 氵 water + 劳 to labor = to inundate. The water keeps rising while the farmers labor all night with sandbags, but the river still threatens to inundate their fields.

  • HSK 8
  • 10 strokes
  • Radical 氵

Component breakdown

涝 = 氵 water + 劳 to labor

  • 氵 water
  • 劳 to labor
The Gushi story

The water keeps rising while the farmers labor all night with sandbags, but the river still threatens to inundate their fields.

How it is used

  • Waterlogging/flooding of farmland from excess rain - the paired opposite of 旱 (hàn, drought): 旱涝保收 (hànlào-bǎoshōu) a harvest secure against both drought and flood.
  • 排涝 (páilào) to drain floodwater. Agriculture/weather term.