染

染 (radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水弓木 (END), four-corner 3490₄, composition ⿱氿木(GJKV) or ⿱氿𣎳(HT))

• 媣, 𫽦, 蒅, 𩃵

• KangXi: page 519, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14621
• Dae Jaweon: page 907, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1188, character 7
• Unihan data for U+67D3

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 氵 (“water”) + 九 (“hook”) + 木 (“tree”) – to hang (on a hook 九) from a tree (木) into water (氵), so as to dye.

Earlier forms more often graphically 氵 + 杂; water radical moved up.

Coblin (1986) compares this to Tibetan [script needed] (nyams-pa, “be stained, tarnished, spoiled”); Pan (1987) also notes Proto-Tai *ɲuɔmᴬ as well as Vietnamese nhuộm, both meaning "to dye".

Schuessler (2007) cites Downer (1986)'s opinion that form with 上 (shàng) tone is the verb, while form with 去 (qù) tone is the noun meaning "kind of cloth" (Lǐjì).

染

1. to dye
2. be contagious
3. to infect

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. dye, color, paint, stain, print

• Go-on: ねん (nen)
• Kan-on: ぜん (zen)
• Kan’yō-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)
• Kun: しみ (shimi, 染み, Jōyō); そめる (someru, 染める, Jōyō); しみる (shimiru, 染みる, Jōyō); そまる (somaru, 染まる, Jōyō)

染 • (yeom) (hangeul 염, revised yeom, McCune–Reischauer yŏm, Yale yem)

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染 (nhuộm, nhẹm, nhiễm, nhuốm, ruộm, vẩn)

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