rǎn
染 (rǎn) is a Chinese word meaning “to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc)”.
Meanings
- 1to dye
- 2to catch (a disease)
- 3to acquire (bad habits etc)
- 4to contaminate
- 5to add color washes to a painting
- Part of speech
- verb
Related words
感染to infect; infection污染(lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate传染to infect传染病infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease染色体chromosome染上to catch (a disease)感染力infectiousness (of a disease)染指to dip a finger (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie传染性infectious; contagious染料dye染发to dye one's hair染色dye