Character Details
| wash (to) | Ascii: 20854 | w364 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 洗 | xǐ | tsee | 3 | 氵 (water) + 先 (first) → wash | 洗 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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In Japan, you always wash with water from the shower before you enter the bathtub. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Where's the bathroom? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 85 - 氏 | shì | water | clan | clan mark | 氏 民 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 氵 (water) + 先 (first) → wash | 水 (semantic) | 先 (phonetic) | phonetic from 先 | ||||||||