染

Translingual

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 氵 (“water”) + 九 (“hook”) + 木 (“tree”) – to hang (on a hook 九) from a tree (木) into water (氵), so as to dye.

Earlier forms more often graphically 氵 + 杂; water radical moved up.

Han character

染 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水弓木 (END), four-corner 3490₄)

1. dye
2. be contagious
3. infect

See also

• 杂

References

• KangXi: page 519, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14621
• Dae Jaweon: page 907, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1188, character 7
• Unihan data for U+67D3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

染 (Yale yim5)

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Japanese

Kanji

染 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: そめる (someru), しみる (shimiru), そまる (somaru)

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Korean

Hanja

染 (hangeul 염, revised yeom, McCune-Reischauer yŏm, Yale yem)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

染 (pinyin rǎn (ran3), Wade-Giles jan³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

染 (nhiễm, nhuộm, nhẹm, nhuốm, ruộm, vẩn)