沾
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to moisten; to be infected by; to receive benefit or advantage through a contact; to touch
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,035 U+6CBE
How 沾 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 占 (phonetic, zhàn)
How to remember it
soak · Heisig RSH #1533
水 water + 占 tell fortunes
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 占
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 占 (zhàn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 占 sound component | zhàn | to divine; to observe; to versify |
| 点 | diǎn | dot, point, speck |
| 战 | zhàn | war, fighting, battle |
| 站 | zhàn | stand, station; to halt, to stand; website; measure word for stands and stations |
| 店 | diàn | shop, store; inn, hotel |
| 贴 | tiē | to stick, to paste; attached; allowance, subsidy |
| 钻 | zuàn | diamond; to bore, to drill, to pierce |
| 黏 | nián | to stick to; glutinous, sticky; glue |
| 粘 | zhān | viscous, sticky, mucous, glutinous |
| 毡 | zhān | felt; rug, carpet |
| 砧 | zhēn | anvil, flat stone |
| 玷 | diàn | character flaw; a flaw in a gem |
| 坫 | diàn | a stand on which to replace goblets after drinking |
| 苫 | shān | rush or straw matting |
| 飐 | zhǎn | to sway in the wind |
| 扂 | diàn | door latch |
| 鲇 | nián | sheatfish; Parasilurus asotus |
Words containing 沾
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 两手不沾阳春水 | liǎng shǒu bù zhān yáng chūn shuǐ | see 十指不沾陽春水|十指不沾阳春水[shi2 zhi3 bu4 zhan1 yang2 chun1 shui3] |
| 十指不沾阳春水 | shí zhǐ bù zhān yáng chūn shuǐ | (saying) (usu. of a woman) to have no need to do household chores (washing clothes etc); t… |
| 脚不沾地 | jiǎo bù zhān dì | feet not touching the ground (idiom); to run like the wind |
| 烟酒不沾 | yān jiǔ bù zhān | abstaining from liquor and tobacco |
| 沾化区 | Zhān huà Qū | Zhanhua, a district of Binzhou City 濱州市|滨州市[Bin1 zhou1 Shi4], Shandong |
| 三不沾 | sān bù zhān | air ball (basketball) |
| 放射性沾染 | fàng shè xìng zhān rǎn | radioactive contamination |
| 沾亲带故 | zhān qīn dài gù | (idiom) to have some sort of connection (personal or familial etc) |
| 滴酒不沾 | dī jiǔ bù zhān | never to touch a drop of alcohol |
| 不沾锅 | bù zhān guō | non-stick pan (Tw) |
| 惹草沾花 | rě cǎo zhān huā | see 沾花惹草[zhan1 hua1 re3 cao3] |
| 沾花惹草 | zhān huā rě cǎo | to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom); to womanize; to frequent brothels; to… |
| 沾益区 | Zhān yì Qū | Zhanyi, a district of Qujing City 曲靖市[Qu3 jing4 Shi4], Yunnan |
| 沾化 | Zhān huà | see 霑化區|沾化区[Zhan1 hua4 Qu1] |
| 沾光 | zhān guāng | to bask in the light; fig. to benefit from association with sb or sth; reflected glory |
| 沾染世俗 | zhān rǎn shì sú | to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom) |
| 沾边 | zhān biān | to have a connection with; to be close (to reality); to be relevant; to have one's hand in |
| 沾沾自喜 | zhān zhān zì xǐ | immeasurably self-satisfied |
| 沾满 | zhān mǎn | muddy; covered in (mud, dust, sweat, blood etc); daubed in |
| 沾益 | Zhān yì | see 霑益區|沾益区[Zhan1 yi4 Qu1] |