Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- rǎn
English
- dye
- to dye
- be contagious
- to catch (a disease)
- infect
- to acquire (bad habits etc)
- to contaminate
- to add color washes to a painting
- to dye
- to influence
粵語
- 將布料或者毛髮浸入顏料入邊嚟著色
- 一樣嘢透過接觸或者係因為相近另一樣嘢而受其同化
As a component in
Words containing 染
- 污染wu1 jim5
(lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate
- 渲染hyun1 jim5
rendering (computing)
- 感染gam2 jim5
to infect; infection
- 傳染cyun4 jim5
to infect
- 染色jim5 sik1
to dye
- 染上jim5 soeng5
to catch (a disease)
- 染病jim5 beng6
to catch an illness
- 染料jim5 liu2
dye
- 染髮jim5 faat3
to get one's hair dyed
- 染指jim5 zi2
to dip a finger (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie
- 有染jau5 jim5
to have an affair with sb
- 沾染zim1 jim5
to pollute (often fig.)
- 挑染tiu1 jim5
highlight (hair)
- 傳染病cyun4 jim5 beng6
infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
- 染色體jim5 sik1 tai2
chromosome
- 染缸jim5 gong1
a dye vat; often used as a metaphor to describe an environment where one cannot escape the negative influences
- 漂染piu3 jim5
to bleach and dye
- 感染力gam2 jim5 lik6
infectiousness (of a disease)
- 染有jim5 jau5
to have contracted something, to be clanged onto by a foreign substance
- 點染dim2 jim5
to touch up (a piece of writing)
- 紮染zaat3 jim5
to tie-dye
- 暈染wan4 jim5
to smudge (become smeared)
- 拔染bat6 jim5
discharge
- 蠟染laap6 jim5
batik (color printing on cloth using wax)