IDENTITY
脏zāngdirty
HSK 3Top 900
CORE MEANING
dirty
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.dirtyHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 月flesh radical (ròu)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰月庄
- flesh; body
- gives the sound zāng
USAGE
Common words
脏乱zāngluàndirty and messy
很脏hěn zāngvery dirty
Graded examples
衣服脏了，要洗。Yīfu zāng le, yào xǐ.HSK3
The clothes are dirty and need washing.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 庄
LEARNING
Memory aid
Flesh (月) soiled at the farm (庄) — dirty. (From 髒.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #900
- 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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