染 (jim5 | ran3) : dye; infected; pollute

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染

jim5

ran3

[1] dye; tint; colour
[2] contract (a disease, a bad habit, etc); get infected
[3] pollute; soil; contaminate
[4] illicit relationship

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Stroke count: 9

Level: 3

Radical: 木 (#75)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

染

This word has been viewed 8160 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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染色 jim5 sik1 = to stain

染色劑 jim5 sik1 zai1 = stain

污染 wu1 jim5 wu1 ran3 = pollution; polluting

傳染 cyun4 jim5 chuan2 ran3 = to infect; to transmit a disease

傳染病 cyun4 jim5 beng6 chuan2 ran3 bing4 = infectious disease; contagious disease; pestilence

感染 gam2 jim5 gan3 ran3 = [1] to infect; to contaminate; [2] to influence

傳染性 cyun4 jim5 sing3 chuan2 ran3 bing4 = infectious; contagious

感染性 gam2 jim5 sing3 gan3 ran3 xing4 = infectious; contagious

印染 jan3 jim5 yin4 ran3 = printing and dyeing (of textiles)

染污 jim5 wu1 ran3 wu1 = to contaminate, soil, make dirty
See all 53 compounds (CantoDict reports 55 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 2 examples containing 染

我每一年染兩次髮粵
I dye my hair twice a year.
[Lit. I each one year dye two times hair. Note how the verb and object are split up by the frequency phrase.]

我每一年都會染兩次髮粵
I always dye my hair twice per year.

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Decimal representation of this word: 染
Unicode code for this character: U+67d3 (off-site link)

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