染 (rǎn)
to dye; to contaminate; to catch (a disease)
How 染 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 染
- Simplified
- 染 (unchanged)
Components
- 氵 water
- 丿 bend
- ㇈ N/A
- 木 tree
Common words using 染
- 感染 gǎnrǎn
- infection; to infect; to influence
- 污染 wūrǎn
- pollution; contamination; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 一塵不染 yīchénbùrǎn
- untainted by even a speck of dust (idiom); selfless and incorruptible; spotless
- 傳染 chuánrǎn
- to infect; contagious
- 傳染病 chuánrǎnbìng
- infectious disease; contagious disease; pestilence
- 感染力 gǎnrǎnlì
- inspiration; infectious (enthusiasm)
- 暈染 yùnrǎn
- to smudge (become smeared); to smudge (create a blurred effect); shading (wash painting technique)
- 染上 rǎnshàng
- to catch (a disease); to get (a bad habit)
- 染色 rǎnsè
- dye
- 染髮 rǎnfà
- to dye one's hair; rinse; tint
- 沾染 zhānrǎn
- to pollute (often fig.); to be infected by; to gain a small advantage
- 渲染 xuànrǎn
- rendering (computing); to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting); to exaggerate
染 in a sentence
她把頭髮染成了棕色。
Tā bǎ tóufǎ rǎnchéng le zōngsè.
“She dyed her hair brown.”
How common is 染?
染 is the 1,139th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 91.1% of all running text.
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