染
Meanings
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- 1.to dye
- 2.to catch (a disease)
- 3.to acquire (bad habits etc)
- 4.to contaminate
- 5.to add color washes to a painting
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Wiktionary
- 1.to dye
- 2.to catch (a disease); to fall into (a bad habit)
- 3.a surname, Ran
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 氵 (“water”) + 九 (“hook”) + 木 (“tree”) – to hang (on a hook 九) from a tree (木) into water (氵), so as to dye. Earlier forms more often graphically 氵 + 杂; in the modern form, the water radical is moved upward to the upper-left corner. Coblin (1986) compares this to Tibetan ཉམས་པ (nyams pa, “be stained, tarnished, spoiled”); Pan (1987) also notes Proto-Tai *ɲuɔmᴬ as well as Vietnamese nhuộm, both meaning "to dye". Schuessler (2007) cites Downer (1986)'s opinion that form with 上 (shàng) tone is the verb, while form with 去 (qù) tone is the noun meaning "kind of cloth" (Lǐjì).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
你染過頭髮嗎？
Have you ever dyed your hair?
瘧疾是由蚊子傳染的。
Malaria is carried by mosquitoes.
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Derived terms
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