渲染 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

xuànrǎn

exaggerate

xuàn add repeated washes of color

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 宣 represents the sound.

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

宣 Sound component

xuān declare, announce

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	sqʰʷans

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 杂 represents the sound.

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

杂 Sound component

zá mixed, various

Change in sound

染 and 杂 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Regular Modern

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	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	nyemX	C.n[a]mʔ	to dye

《說文》：“染，以繒染為色。从水，杂聲。”