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[1] wash; bathe; clean with water [2] clear; erase; redress; purge [3] sack; devastate; pillage [4] (of film or photo) develop; process [5] shuffle (cards, etc) Stroke count: 9
Level: 1
Radical: 水 (#85)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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洗手間 sai2 sau2 gaan1 = washroom 洗頭水 sai2 tau4 seoi2 = shampoo 粵 洗面 sai2 min6 = to wash one's face 粵 洗面膏 sai2 min6 gou1 = face wash (bath and beauty item) 洗米 sai2 mai5 = to wash uncooked rice; a loser 刷牙洗面 caat3 ngaa4 sai2 min6 = brush one's teeth and wash one's face 粵 擦洗 caat3 sai2 = scour; scrub; wipe 洗碗 sai2 wun2 = to wash the dishes 洗面梘 sai2 min6 gaan2 = Face cleanser 粵 洗澡 sai2 cou3 = have a bath 國 See all 92 compounds (CantoDict reports 93 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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Showing all 9 examples containing 洗
套西裝洗咗喇 粵
The suit has been cleaned. [[literal] 套 (classifier) + 西裝 western suit + 洗咗 have washed + 喇 (final particle) This simple sentence shows that passive construction in Cantonese does not always need a passive marker (俾) as it does in English.]
董先生偷拍女朋友的十來歲的女兒洗澡 國
Mr. Dong is taking pictures of his girlfriend's teenage daughter bathing without her knowledge.
唔該你快快脆脆洗晒啲碗(佢)。 粵
Please wash all the dishes quickly. [In this sample, the speaker is more likely to speak in an impatient manner.]
我攞咗上個禮拜買嗰件衫去乾洗 粵
I took the shirt I bought last week to be dry-cleaned. [Lit. I took-already last-week bought that (counter) shirt go dry-clean]
我攞咗上個禮拜買嗰啲衫去乾洗 粵
I took the clothes I bought last week to be dry-cleaned. [Lit. I took-already last-week bought those shirts go dry-clean]
我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺廣城買嗰件衫去洗 粵
I took the shirt I bought two weeks ago at the shopping mall to be cleaned. [Lit. I took two weeks ago at shopping mall buy that shirt go clean]
點解你洗嚫碗都打爛嘢㗎?
Why is it that every time you wash dishes you break something? [[粵] V-嚫 ... 都... Pattern the means every time someone does something, such and such will happen.] Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |