沾 — Chinese character
沾
zhān
to moisten, to soak, to wet; to touch
- Pinyin
- zhān
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 氵 占
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 占
- Japanese
- 沾 as a kanji
Common words with 沾
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沾满 (沾滿) | zhān mǎn | muddy; covered in (mud, dust, sweat, blood etc) |
| 沾染 | zhān rǎn | to pollute (often fig.); to be infected by |
| 沾沾自喜 | zhān zhān zì xǐ | immeasurably self-satisfied |
| 沾光 | zhān guāng | to bask in the light; fig. to benefit from association with sb or sth |
| 沾边 (沾邊) | zhān biān | to have a connection with; to be close (to reality) |
| 沾湿 (沾濕) | zhān shī | to moisten; to dampen |
| 沾花惹草 | zhān huā rě cǎo | to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom); to womanize |
| 沾酱 (沾醬) | zhān jiàng | dip (cookery) |
| 脚不沾地 (腳不沾地) | jiǎo bù zhān dì | feet not touching the ground (idiom); to run like the wind |
| 不沾锅 (不沾鍋) | bù zhān guō | non-stick pan (Tw) |
| 沾亲带故 (沾親帶故) | zhān qīn dài gù | (idiom) to have some sort of connection (personal or familial etc) |
| 三不沾 | sān bù zhān | air ball (basketball) |
沾 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 2
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