rǎn
dye, infect, be contagious
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 杂 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
rǎn
dye; be contagious; infect; to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate; to add color washes to a painting
Most common words with 染
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
infection | ||
pollution | ||
to dye | ||
to infect | ||
infectious disease |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.n[a]mʔ | nyemX | rǎn | to dye |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 24.2672% of movies
1207th most common character in movies
1141st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67D3 |
Shuowen | “染，以繒染為色。从水，杂聲。” |
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