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染 rǎn dye

dye; to infect; to be contagious

How to remember 染: 氿 water spring + 木 tree = dye. At the mountain water spring, Grandma boils bark from a walnut tree and shows the kids how to dye their T-shirts brown.

  • 1,141. most frequent character
  • HSK 4
  • 9 strokes
  • Radical 木

Component breakdown

染 = 氿 water spring + 木 tree

  • 氿 water spring
  • 木 tree
The Gushi story

At the mountain water spring, Grandma boils bark from a walnut tree and shows the kids how to dye their T-shirts brown.

How it is used

  • Two senses joined by 'spreading onto': 'to dye' (染发 rǎnfà dye one's hair) and 'to infect/catch' (感染 gǎnrǎn infection).
  • 传染 (chuánrǎn) = contagious/to pass on a disease; 传染病 (chuánrǎnbìng) infectious disease.
  • 污染 (wūrǎn) pollution also uses 染 - the sense of something bad spreading onto a surface.

Words with 染

Example sentences

  • 污染对环境造成了破坏。 Wūrǎn duì huánjìng zàochéngle pòhuài.Pollution has caused damage to the environment.