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Kanji Detail for 沾 - "moisten, add"
沾
- Meaning
沾 means "moisten, add."
Moisten - To wet; to dampen; to receive benefit or grace.
Add - To append; to supplement.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
moisten; wet; soak; touch
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
moisten, wet, soak; touch
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to moisten; to be infected by; to receive benefit or advantage through a contact; to touch
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to moisten, to soak, to wet; to touch
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To soak. To moisten. People's habits and influences are also called 沾染 (to be tainted). As in "picking up bad habits" (沾染嗜好). | 沾溉 (Chan-kai). Refers to benefiting others. As in an author who has made contributions to scholarship is said to "benefit later generations" (沾溉後人). Originally written as 霑. Today they are commonly used interchangeably. | Frivolous. 沾沾自喜 (being complacent) refers to a person of small capacity who is easily satisfied. See Records of the Grand Historian. Read as T'ieh, Entering tone. Today's reading as Level tone is incorrect.
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