染 — Chinese character
染
rǎn
dye; to catch; to infect; to be contagious
- Pinyin
- rǎn
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 氿 木
- Formation
- ideographic — Water 氵 and wine 九 mixed in a wooden 木 bowl
- Japanese
- 染 as a kanji
Common words with 染
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 污染 | wū rǎn | (lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate |
| 感染 | gǎn rǎn | to infect; infection; (fig.) to influence |
| 传染 (傳染) | chuán rǎn | to infect; contagious |
| 渲染 | xuàn rǎn | rendering (computing); to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting) |
| 传染病 (傳染病) | chuán rǎn bìng | infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease |
| 污染物 | wū rǎn wù | pollutant |
| 染色体 (染色體) | rǎn sè tǐ | chromosome |
| 染色 | rǎn sè | to dye |
| 环境污染 (環境污染) | huán jìng wū rǎn | environmental pollution |
| 染上 | rǎn shàng | to catch (a disease); to get (a bad habit) |
| 染料 | rǎn liào | dye |
| 染病 | rǎn bìng | to catch an illness; to get infected with a disease |
English words written with 染
- infection
- dye
- infectious
- rendering
- contamination
- contagious
- chromosome
- cleaners
- infect
- shading
- pollute
- contaminate
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.