IDENTITY
洗xǐto wash
HSK 1Top 430
CORE MEANING
to wash
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to washHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵先
- water
- gives the sound xǐ (historical)
USAGE
Common words
洗手xǐshǒuto wash hands
洗澡xǐzǎoto bathe
洗衣机xǐyījīwashing machine
Graded examples
我每天洗两次脸。Wǒ měitiān xǐ liǎng cì liǎn.HSK2
I wash my face twice a day.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Water (氵) first (先) — wash before anything else.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #430
- 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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