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染rǎn指zhǐ垂chuí涎xián
  1. lit. dirty finger, mouth watering (idiom); fig. greedy to seize sth

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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染
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Pinyin
rǎn
Strokes
9
Frequency
18274 of 2500
Words starting with 染Words ending in 染Anywhere in a word
指
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

finger, to point at or to, to indicate or refer to, to depend on, to count on, (of hair) to stand on end

Pinyin
zhǐ
Strokes
9
Frequency
1173 of 2500
Words starting with 指Words ending in 指Anywhere in a word
垂
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to hang (down), droop, dangle, bend down, hand down, bequeath, nearly, almost, to approach

Pinyin
chuí
Strokes
8
Frequency
27628 of 2500
Words starting with 垂Words ending in 垂Anywhere in a word
涎
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

variant of 涎[xian2]

Pinyin
xián
Traditional
㳄
Strokes
9
Words starting with 涎Words ending in 涎Anywhere in a word