See How Fast You Can Learn Chinese
Try our interactive spaced repetition demo—study your first words in 60 seconds
Studying for the HSK? Don't like subscriptions? Try our one-time HSK Study Access package for $9.99 (PPP available).
沾
Sign in to save this word to your study lists.
Definitions
- 1. to moisten
- 2. to be infected by
- 3. to receive benefit or advantage through a contact
- 4. to touch
Example Sentences
1 shown我滴酒不 沾 。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 沾
to pollute (often fig.)
see 十指不沾陽春水|十指不沾阳春水[shí zhǐ bù zhān yáng chūn shuǐ]
dip (cookery)
abstaining from liquor and tobacco
adhesion (medicine)
Zhanhu county in Binzhou 濱州|滨州[bīn zhōu], Shandong
radioactive contaminant
to share (profits)
never to touch a drop of alcohol
see 沾花惹草[zhān huā rě cǎo]
air ball (basketball)
to moisten
residual contamination
to have no need to fend for oneself (idiom)
to have a connection with
contamination control
to moisten one's lips
radioactive contamination
decontamination
muddy
to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)
feet not touching the ground (idiom)
contamination meter
Zhanhu county in Binzhou 濱州|滨州[bīn zhōu], Shandong
to bask in the light
Zhanyi county in Qujing 曲靖[qǔ jìng], Yunnan
Zhanyi county in Qujing 曲靖[qǔ jìng], Yunnan
to moisten
immeasurably self-satisfied
to be corrupted by the ways of the world (idiom)