| 染 |  rǎn | to dye / to catch (a disease) / to acquire (bad habits etc) / to contaminate / to add color washes to a painting |   |
| 颜料 | yán liào | paint / dye / pigment | |
| 染料 | rǎn liào | dye | |
| 染色 | rǎn sè | dye | |
| 上色 | shàng shǎi | to color (a picture etc) / to dye (fabric etc) / to stain (furniture etc) | |
| 擩 | rǔ | to stain / to dye | |
| 染发 | rǎn fà | to dye one's hair / rinse / tint | |
| 染发剂 | rǎn fà jì | hair dye / rinse / tint | |
| 漂染 | piǎo rǎn | to bleach and dye | |
| 紫草 | zǐ cǎo | red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae) | |
| 染布 | rǎn bù | to dye cloth | |
| 红曲 | hóng qū | red food dye made from yeast | |
| 黛 | dài | umber-black dye for painting the eyebrow | |
| 潢 | huáng | dye paper / lake / pond / mount scroll | |
| 韎 | mèi | a grass that gives red dye | |
| 蓼蓝 | liǎo lán | indigo dye / Polygonum tinctorium | |
| 挑染 | tiāo rǎn | highlight (hair) / partial hair dye | |
| 染厂 | rǎn chǎng | dye factory / dye-works | |
| 柘黄 | zhè huáng | yellow dye made from the bark of the 柘[zhe4] tree | |
| 焗油 | jú yóu | to condition or dye the hair using hair treatment product in conjunction with a hair steamer | |
| 蕠藘 | rú lu:2 | variant of 茹藘, Rubia cordifolia or Rubia akane, roots used as red dye | |
| 染料激光器 | rǎn liào jī guāng qì | dye laser | |
| 不透射线色剂 | | radio-opaque dye | |
