染 rǎn

1. rǎn verb to be contagious; to catch (illness)
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'rǎn' 染 v 2; Unihan '染')
2. rǎn verb to dye; to stain
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'rǎn' 染 v 1; GHC '染' 1; Kroll 2015 '染' 1; Unihan '染')
3. rǎn verb to infect
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 感染 (Kroll 2015 '染' 3; GHC '染' 2; Unihan '染')
4. rǎn verb to sully; to pollute; to smear
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 玷污 (ABC 'rǎn' 染 v 3; GHC '染' 3; Kroll 2015 '染' 2)
5. rǎn noun infection
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '染' 3)
6. rǎn verb to corrupt
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '染' 3)
7. rǎn verb to make strokes
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Art
   Notes: In painting (ABC 'rǎn' 染 v 4)
8. rǎn noun black bean sauce
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense 豆豉酱 (GHC '染' 4)
9. rǎn proper noun Ran
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (GHC '染' 5)

Contained in

• 汙染 to defile; to pollute ; to infect
• 染指垂涎 dirty finger, mouth watering; greedy to seize sth
• 染毒 contamination
• 染色体倍性(染色體倍性) ploidy (number of homologous chromosomes)
• 拔染 discharge
• 传染病(傳染病) an infectious disease
• 牵染(牽染) to imbue
• 飞沫传染(飛沫傳染) droplet infection (disease transmission from sneezing, coughing etc)
• 耳濡目染 to be influenced
• 空气传染(空氣傳染) airborne transmission
• 染发剂(染髮劑) hair dye; rinse; tint
• 空气污染(空氣污染) air pollution
• 冰染染料 azoic dyes
• 扎染 to tie dye
• 大气污染(大氣污染) air pollution; atmospheric pollution
• 除沾染 decontamination
• 残余沾染(殘餘沾染) residual contamination
• 染病 to catch an illness; to get infected with a disease
• 染风习俗(染風習俗) bad habits; to get into bad habits through long custom
• 感染 to infect ; to influence; to affect
• 染污 to contaminate; to pollute
• 沾染控制 contamination control
• 点染(點染) to touch up (a piece of writing); to add details (to a painting)
• 放射性沾染 radioactive contamination
• 瑞氏染料 Wright's stain (used in studying blood)
• 基因染色体异常(基因染色體異常) genetic chromosome abnormality
• 染厂(染廠) dye factory; dye-works
• 迁染(遷染) to influence or change customs
• 传染病学(傳染病學) epidemiology
• 环境污染(環境污染) environmental pollution
• 传染源(傳染源) source of an infection
• 纤尘不染(纖塵不染) untainted by even a small speck of dust; selfless and incorruptible
• 上呼吸道感染 upper respiratory tract infection
• 渐染(漸染) gradually infect
• 放射性污染 radioactive contamination
• 污染物 pollutant
• 晕染(暈染) yun-ran painting technique ; to color in; to fill in ; to bloom
• 铅污染(鉛污染) lead pollution
• 沾染习气(沾染習氣) defiled by the social customs of the time
• 印染 to print and dye
• 染料 dye
• 染发(染髮) to dye one's hair; rinse; tint
• 渲染 rendering ; to add washes of ink or color to a drawing ; to exaggerate; to embellish
• 水污染 water pollution
• 挑染 highlight (hair); partial hair dye
• 感染性腹泻(感染性腹瀉) infective diarrhea
• 染上 to catch (a disease); to get (a bad habit)
• 传染(傳染) to infect
• 漂染 to bleach and dye

Also contained in

蜡染 、 蜡染花

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷一 所染 Book 1 - That Which Is Affectable Mozi 墨子 — count: 31
• 卷51　列傳第16 長孫覽 Volume 51 Biographies 16: Zhang Sunlan Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 27
• 卷二十二　列傳第十:　　長孫嵩 長孫道生 長孫肥 Volume 22 Biographies 10: Zhang Sunsong, Zhangsun Daosheng, Zheng Sunfei History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 26
• 卷八十五　志第三十五: 　百官一 Volume 85 Treatises 38: Official Posts 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 22
• 卷一百〇二 載記第二 劉聰 Volume 102 Records 2: Liu Cong Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 20
• 卷八十九　志第三十九: 　百官五 Volume 89 Treatises 42: Official Posts 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 18
• 卷84　列傳第49 北狄 Volume 84 Biographies 49: The Beidi Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 10
• 卷九十九　列傳第八十七:　突厥 鐵勒 Volume 99 Biographies 87: Tujie, Tiele History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 9
• 卷四十八　　　　志第三十八　　百官三 Volume 48 Treatises 43: Official Posts 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 8
• 卷八十　　列傳第六十八:　外戚 Volume 80 Biographies 68: Families of Imperial Consorts History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 7

Collocations

• 染丝 (染絲) 掌染絲帛 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 6
• 染羽 (染羽) 鍾氏染羽 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 冬官考工記 第六 6. Office of Winter and Inspection Records — count: 4
• 见染 (見染) 見染絲者而嘆曰 — Mozi 墨子, 卷一 所染 Book 1 - That Which Is Affectable — count: 4
• 官染 (官染) 命婦官染采 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 3
• 染不可 (染不可) 故染不可不愼也 — Mozi 墨子, 卷一 所染 Book 1 - That Which Is Affectable — count: 3
• 赵染 (趙染) 模使牙門趙染戍蒲阪 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷三十七 列傳第七 宗室 Volume 37 Biographies 7: Imperial Clan — count: 3
• 染采 (染采) 命婦官染采 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 3
• 掌染 (掌染) 掌染絲帛 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 3
• 鲜染 (鮮染) 割鮮染輪射中獲多 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《司馬相如列傳》 Biography of Sima Xiangru — count: 3
• 染不当 (染不當) 此四王者所染不當 — Mozi 墨子, 卷一 所染 Book 1 - That Which Is Affectable — count: 3