Memory phrase for the character: 沾

沾

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Meaning to moisten, to be infected by, to receive favors

Pronunciation

zhān

Explanation

Left: water 氵, right: fortune-telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told)

Mnemonic
 
If you use water for fortune telling, you need to moisten sth.

Radicals

氵 Water
占 divineIt is shown a crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told. This radical uses the radical 卜.
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 Vocabulary

沾花惹草 zhān huā rě cǎo  to moisten the flower and beckon the leaves (idiom); to womanize; to frequent brothels; to sow one's wild oats
沾染 zhān rǎn  to pollute (often fig.); to be infected by; to gain a small advantage
沾染 zhān rǎn  
沾染 zhān rǎn  

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