濡染 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

rúrǎn

dip

rú, ruǎn, ér immerse

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 (water) represents the meaning and 需 represents the sound.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ water

需 Sound component

xū need

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	nyu	no	wet, glossy

說文解字

《說文》：“濡，水。出涿郡故安，東入漆涑。从水，需聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

rǎn dye, infect, be contagious

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

Components

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.

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

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

說文解字

《說文》：“染，以繒染為色。从水，杂聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

濡 rú, ruǎn, ér immerse

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

染 rǎn dye, infect, be contagious

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

rú, ruǎn, ér immerse

rǎn dye, infect, be contagious