染
to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate; to add color washes to a painting
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,036 U+67D3
How 染 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Water 氵 and wine 九 mixed in a wooden 木 bowl
How to remember it
dye · Heisig RSH #222
水 water + 木 tree + baseball
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 染
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 多线染色体 | duō xiàn rǎn sè tǐ | polytene chromosome |
| 传染病学 | chuán rǎn bìng xué | epidemiology |
| 感染人数 | gǎn rǎn rén shù | number of infected persons |
| 染色体 | rǎn sè tǐ | chromosome |
| 常染色体 | cháng rǎn sè tǐ | autosomal chromosome; autosome; autosomal |
| 传染性 | chuán rǎn xìng | infectious; contagious; infectiousness; transmissibility |
| 传染病 | chuán rǎn bìng | infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease |
| 病毒感染 | bìng dú gǎn rǎn | viral infection |
| 感染力 | gǎn rǎn lì | infectiousness (of a disease); appeal; power; impact (of an image, marketing message, perf… |
| 染色质 | rǎn sè zhì | chromatin |
| 染发剂 | rǎn fà jì | hair dye; rinse; tint |
| 革兰氏染色法 | Gé lán shì rǎn sè fǎ | Gram stain (used to distinguished two different kinds of bacteria) |
| 感染者 | gǎn rǎn zhě | infected person |
| 上呼吸道感染 | shàng hū xī dào gǎn rǎn | upper respiratory tract infection |
| 传染源 | chuán rǎn yuán | source of an infection |
| 有染 | yǒu rǎn | to have an affair with sb |
| 染上 | rǎn shàng | to catch (a disease); to get (a bad habit) |
| 染发 | rǎn fà | to get one's hair dyed |
| 母子垂直感染 | mǔ zǐ chuí zhí gǎn rǎn | mother-to-infant transmission |
| 点染 | diǎn rǎn | to touch up (a piece of writing); to add details (to a painting) |