Dictionary content from CC-CEDICT

Welcome to the MDBG free online English to Chinese dictionary, the no. 1 Chinese study aid! This website offers more than just a Chinese to English and English to Chinese dictionary, it offers various tools such as: flashcards, quizzes, text annotation, Chinese text input, written Chinese and more. The MDBG dictionary is used in many schools and universities all over the world, discover why! Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!

Chinese dictionary for Windows 10

MDBG Chinese Reader is the perfect dictionary application for Microsoft Windows. Translate Chinese text and Lookup Mandarin pinyin for Chinese words easily. Just glide your mouse over the Chinese text and a pop-up window shows English translations and Mandarin pronunciations. Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!


handwriting
Auto complete input: off | on

84 results on this page.

Usage Tips
Traditional
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Simplified
HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *染* | 染* | *染
to dye / to catch (a disease) / to acquire (bad habits etc) / to contaminate / to add color washes to a painting
HSK 5
to pollute; to contaminate (lit. and fig.)
HSK 5
infectiousness (of a disease) / appeal; power; impact (of an image, marketing message, performance etc)
HSK 7-9
to infect; infection / (fig.) to influence
HSK 7-9
infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
HSK 7-9
to infect / contagious
HSK 7-9
lit. dirty finger, mouth watering (idiom); fig. greedy to seize sth
polytene chromosome
to tie-dye
trisomy
rate of infection (usu. of a disease)
infected person
pressure roller used in dyeing trough
to dye one's hair / rinse / tint
hair dye / rinse / tint
chromosome
pollutant
to catch (a disease) / to get (a bad habit)
to pollute (often fig.) / to be infected by / to gain a small advantage
water pollution
air pollution
batik (color printing on cloth using wax)
environmental pollution
to have an affair with sb
(idiom) untainted by even a speck of dust; spotlessly clean; (of a person) honest; incorruptible
upper respiratory tract infection
to bleach and dye
cross-infection
to touch up (a piece of writing) / to add details (to a painting)
droplet infection (disease transmission from sneezing, coughing etc)
air pollution / atmospheric pollution
to catch an illness / to get infected with a disease
dye
chromosome / genetic material of chromosome
contamination
to dip a finger (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie / to get a share of the action / abbr. for 染指於鼎|染指于鼎
commercial laundry / cleaners
dye
to be influenced
lit. dip one's finger in the tripod (idiom); fig. to get one's finger in the pie / to get a share of the action
to be contaminated / to be gradually influenced
rendering (computing) / to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting) / to exaggerate / to embellish
highlight (hair) / partial hair dye
to exert a gradual influence / to nurture / a corrupting influence
bad habits / to get into bad habits through long custom
to infect / to influence / to dip (in ink)
autosomal chromosome / autosome / autosomal
discharge
noise pollution
to smudge (become smeared) / to smudge (create a blurred effect) / shading (wash painting technique)
radioactive contamination
big dyeing vat / (fig.) corrupting environment
number of infected persons
water pollution
mother-to-infant transmission
Gram stain (used to distinguished two different kinds of bacteria)
source of an infection
epidemiology
ploidy (number of homologous chromosomes)
infectious; contagious / infectiousness; transmissibility
azoic dyes
lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) / fig. to be principled and incorruptible
printing and dyeing
laboratory infection
infective diarrhea
radioactive contamination
radioactive contaminant
to dye cloth
dye factory / dye-works
dyeing and weaving
residual contamination
contaminated area
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)
contamination control
mixed infection
relief shading (in a picture) / fig. to throw into relief
Wright's stain (used in studying blood)
Wright's stain (used in studying blood)
viral infection
secondary infection
pad dyeing
tinge
decontamination


Tip: Looking for an offline dictionary? Try MDBG Chinese Reader for Windows or MDBG Chinese-English dictionary for macOS!
© 2025 MDBG Made in Holland Made in Europe
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies