I washed my hands.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
洗手
to wash one's hands
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to wash one's hands
02
to go to the toilet
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 洗手 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 洗手 appears in 21 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
They wash their hands.
Have you washed your hands?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 洗手.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 洗手.
Directly before
- 要洗手2
- 没洗手2
- 必须洗手2
- 我洗手2
- 去洗手2
Directly after
- 洗手了2
- 洗手呢1
- 洗手的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 洗手
What does 洗手 mean in Chinese?
洗手 (xǐshǒu) means to wash one's hands.
How do you pronounce 洗手?
洗手 is pronounced xǐshǒu.
Is 洗手 an HSK word?
洗手 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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