(archaic, possibly obsolete) the safflower plant, Carthamus tinctorius

布: cloth

to dye / to color; to paint; to blush / (手を染める) to set about; to be involved with / (筆を染める) to start writing

attaches to the continuative form (連用形) of a verb: to get the color or smell through something (＝染み込ませる)

(archaic) antique, old-fashioned / (colloquial) ancient

ancient times, antiquity, remote ages

China / to give something, to do something for someone

Japanese reading of the Chinese surname Wu. / the ancient State of Wu / (chiefly compounds) China, Chinese

(archaic) China, Chinese / a place name, such as that of Kure City in Hiroshima Prefecture

repeatedly