染
rǎn HSK5

dye, infect, be contagious

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Water 氵 and wine 九 mixed in a wooden 木 bowl

Components

氿
氿 Meaning component
木
木 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartnyemXC.n[a]mʔ to dye

說文解字

《說文》：“染，以繒染為色。从水，杂聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)