Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 沦

to sink (into ruin, oblivion)
to be reduced to

to fall into enemy hands
to be occupied
to degenerate
to submerge

to be deeply affected
moved to the core

to sink down to
to be reduced to (sth inferior)

to be lost
to be ruined
to perish
to wither away

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

to sink into (vice, depravity etc)
to pass into oblivion
downfall; passing

to sink
to drown

to perish
extinction

(of a country) to perish
to be annexed
subjugation (to a foreign power)

enemy-held territory

dàodélúnsàng

moral bankruptcy
moral degeneracy

lúnmòsàngwáng

to die
to perish

lúnjījiāsuǐ

lit. penetrate to the marrow (idiom); deeply affected
moved to the core