jiān

渐

Character · VerbTraditional漸

soak; flow into

Tone colorsmāmámǎmàma

Meanings

2 senses · 4 examples
1.

verb

to soak; to permeate

literary

Used in formal literary contexts, refers to liquid soaking into a substance.

Chūn春
yǔ雨
jiān渐
rǎn染
le了
dà大
dì地
 。

Spring rain soaked the earth.

Mò墨
sè色
jiān渐
rǎn染
xuān宣
zhǐ纸
shàng上
 ，
yūn晕
kāi开
yī一
piàn片
yǎ雅
zhì致
 。

Ink soaked into the rice paper, blurring into an elegant patch.

2.

verb

to flow into; to empty into

literary

Used exclusively for rivers, streams or bodies of water merging into a larger water body in literary writing.

Zhè这
tiáo条
xiǎo小
hé河
dōng东
jiān渐
yú于
hǎi海
 。

This small river flows east into the sea.

Zhī支
liú流
jiān渐
huì汇
rù入
zhǔ主
hé河
dào道
 。

The tributaries flow into the main river channel.