浸润

浸潤
jìnrùn
verb #61,445

Meanings

  1. 1 to permeate
  2. 2 to infiltrate
  3. 3 to saturate
  4. 4 to steep (in emotion or influence)

Examples

Yǔshuǐ mànmàn jìnrùnle gānzào de tǔdì.
The rain slowly saturated the dry earth.
Tā de zuòpǐn jìnrùnzhe nónghòu de xiāngtǔ qínghuái.
His work is steeped in deep nostalgia for his homeland.

Tips

usage
Literal sense (water soaking into soil/cloth) is straightforward. Literary/metaphorical sense — being 'steeped in' a culture, emotion, or ideology — is more common in writing. In medicine, 浸润 also means 'infiltration' (as in tumor cells spreading).

Stroke Order

jìn
rùn