IDENTITY
净jìngclean; pure
HSK 2Top 600
CORE MEANING
clean; pure
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.cleanHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 冫ice radical (bīng)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰冫争
- ice; washing
- gives the sound jìng
USAGE
Common words
干净gānjìngclean
净化jìnghuàto purify
Graded examples
他把桌子擦干净了。Tā bǎ zhuōzi cā gānjìng le.HSK4
He wiped the table clean.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Washed with water (冫) until it sparkles (争) — clean. (From 淨.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #600
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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