染

Pinyin: rǎn

to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate

Example sentence

布被染成鲜红。

Bù bèi rǎn chéng xiānhóng.

The cloth was dyed bright red.

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What 染 means

染 (rǎn) is a Chinese word meaning “to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate”. It appears in the HSK 6 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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