沾
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to moisten; to be infected by; to receive benefit or advantage through a contact; to touch
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 水 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 沾
- Common rank
- #2,035
- Unicode
- U+6CBE
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
soak · Heisig RSH #1533
水 water + 占 tell fortunes
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 沾
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 两手不沾阳春水 | see 十指不沾陽春水|十指不沾阳春水[shi2 zhi3 bu4 zhan1 yang2 chun1 shui3] | |
| 十指不沾阳春水 | (saying) (usu. of a woman) to have no need to do household chores (washing clothes etc); t… | |
| 脚不沾地 | feet not touching the ground (idiom); to run like the wind | |
| 烟酒不沾 | abstaining from liquor and tobacco | |
| 沾化区 | Zhanhua, a district of Binzhou City 濱州市|滨州市[Bin1 zhou1 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 三不沾 | air ball (basketball) | |
| 放射性沾染 | radioactive contamination | |
| 沾亲带故 | (idiom) to have some sort of connection (personal or familial etc) | |
| 滴酒不沾 | never to touch a drop of alcohol | |
| 不沾锅 | non-stick pan (Tw) | |
| 惹草沾花 | see 沾花惹草[zhan1 hua1 re3 cao3] | |
| 沾花惹草 | to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom); to womanize; to frequent brothels; to… | |
| 沾益区 | Zhanyi, a district of Qujing City 曲靖市[Qu3 jing4 Shi4], Yunnan | |
| 沾化 | see 霑化區|沾化区[Zhan1 hua4 Qu1] | |
| 沾光 | to bask in the light; fig. to benefit from association with sb or sth; reflected glory | |
| 沾染世俗 | to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom) | |
| 沾边 | to have a connection with; to be close (to reality); to be relevant; to have one's hand in | |
| 沾沾自喜 | immeasurably self-satisfied | |
| 沾满 | muddy; covered in (mud, dust, sweat, blood etc); daubed in | |
| 沾益 | see 霑益區|沾益区[Zhan1 yi4 Qu1] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 占 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 占 sound part | to divine; to observe; to versify | |
| 点 | dot, point, speck | |
| 战 | war, fighting, battle | |
| 站 | stand, station; to halt, to stand; website; measure word for stands and stations | |
| 店 | shop, store; inn, hotel | |
| 贴 | to stick, to paste; attached; allowance, subsidy | |
| 钻 | diamond; to bore, to drill, to pierce | |
| 黏 | to stick to; glutinous, sticky; glue | |
| 粘 | viscous, sticky, mucous, glutinous | |
| 毡 | felt; rug, carpet | |
| 砧 | anvil, flat stone | |
| 玷 | character flaw; a flaw in a gem | |
| 坫 | a stand on which to replace goblets after drinking | |
| 苫 | rush or straw matting | |
| 飐 | to sway in the wind | |
| 扂 | door latch | |
| 鲇 | sheatfish; Parasilurus asotus |