You may get a serious disease.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
染上
to catch (a disease)
IN A VIDEO染上
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to catch (a disease)
02
to get (a bad habit)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 染上 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 染上 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
At dusk, the sky was dyed with purple light.
We all caught flu, and so did the teacher.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 染上.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 染上.
Directly before
- 天空染上4
- 全都染上1
- 会染上1
- 山野染上1
Directly after
- 染上了4
- 染上疾病1
- 染上一层1
- 染上紫色1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 染上
What does 染上 mean in Chinese?
染上 (rǎnshàng) means to catch (a disease).
How do you pronounce 染上?
染上 is pronounced rǎnshàng.
Is 染上 an HSK word?
染上 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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