染

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to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate; to add color washes to a painting

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

Water 氵 and wine 九 mixed in a wooden 木 bowl

Components 氿木

dye · Heisig RSH #222

水 water + 木 tree + baseball

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
多线染色体	duō xiàn rǎn sè tǐ	polytene chromosome
传染病学	chuán rǎn bìng xué	epidemiology
感染人数	gǎn rǎn rén shù	number of infected persons
染色体	rǎn sè tǐ	chromosome
常染色体	cháng rǎn sè tǐ	autosomal chromosome; autosome; autosomal
传染性	chuán rǎn xìng	infectious; contagious; infectiousness; transmissibility
传染病	chuán rǎn bìng	infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
病毒感染	bìng dú gǎn rǎn	viral infection
感染力	gǎn rǎn lì	infectiousness (of a disease); appeal; power; impact (of an image, marketing message, perf…
染色质	rǎn sè zhì	chromatin
染发剂	rǎn fà jì	hair dye; rinse; tint
革兰氏染色法	Gé lán shì rǎn sè fǎ	Gram stain (used to distinguished two different kinds of bacteria)
感染者	gǎn rǎn zhě	infected person
上呼吸道感染	shàng hū xī dào gǎn rǎn	upper respiratory tract infection
传染源	chuán rǎn yuán	source of an infection
有染	yǒu rǎn	to have an affair with sb
染上	rǎn shàng	to catch (a disease); to get (a bad habit)
染发	rǎn fà	to get one's hair dyed
母子垂直感染	mǔ zǐ chuí zhí gǎn rǎn	mother-to-infant transmission
点染	diǎn rǎn	to touch up (a piece of writing); to add details (to a painting)