沾 (zhān)
to dip (in sauce); to touch; to be stained with
How 沾 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 沾
- Simplified
- 沾 (unchanged)
Components
- 氵 water
- ⺊ divination
- 口 mouth
Common words using 沾
- 沾染 zhānrǎn
- to pollute (often fig.); to be infected by; to gain a small advantage
- 沾沾自喜 zhānzhānzìxǐ
- immeasurably self-satisfied
- 沾滿 zhānmǎn
- muddy; covered in (mud, dust, sweat, blood etc); daubed in
- 沾濕 zhānshī
- to moisten; to dampen; to be steeped in
- 沾花惹草 zhānhuārěcǎo
- to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom); to womanize; to frequent brothels
- 沾邊 zhānbiān
- to have a connection with; to be close (to reality); to be relevant
- 滴酒不沾 dījiǔbùzhān
- never to touch a drop of alcohol
- 沾光 zhānguāng
- to bask in the light; fig. to benefit from association with sb or sth; reflected glory
- 沾化 zhānhuà
- Zhanhu county in Binzhou 濱州|滨州[Bin1 zhou1], Shandong
- 沾化縣 zhānhuàxiàn
- Zhanhu county in Binzhou 濱州|滨州[Bin1 zhou1], Shandong
- 沾醬 zhānjiàng
- dip (cookery)
- 霑益 zhānyì
- Zhanyi county in Qujing 曲靖[Qu3 jing4], Yunnan
沾 in a sentence
吃水餃的時候，我喜歡沾醬油和醋。
Chī shuǐjiǎo de shíhòu, wǒ xǐhuān zhān jiàngyóu hàn cù.
“When eating dumplings, I like to dip them in soy sauce and vinegar.”
How common is 沾?
沾 is the 2,397th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.3% of all running text.
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