漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
染: dye, color
Also: paint, stain, print
JLPT N19 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 氵 and 九 are drawn in
9 strokes
Five readings, and the words that use each
センsen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 染色せんしょくstaining, stain, dyeing
- 染料せんりょうdyes
- 染色体せんしょくたいchromosome
- 伝染病でんせんびょうinfectious disease, epidemic
- 染色するせんしょくするstain, dye
- 感染するかんせんするcontract, be infected [v.i.]
- 汚染するおせんするpollute, contaminate [v.i.]
- 伝染するでんせんするcontract, be infected [v.i.]
そめるsomeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 染めるそめるdye, color [v.t.]
そまるsomaru · kun'yomi
- 染まるそまるdye [v.i.]
しみるshimiru · kun'yomi
- 染みるしみるpierce, permeate [v.i.]
しみshimi · kun'yomi
- 染みしみstain, spot
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
九
Also built on nine (九)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side染 dye · 氵 + 九
vs枠 frame · 卆In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · rǎn
Same form: 染 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 染 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 染 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin rǎn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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