You should go and brush your teeth.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
洗牙
(dentistry) to perform or undergo scaling (removal of dental plaque and calculus)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(dentistry) to perform or undergo scaling (removal of dental plaque and calculus)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 洗牙 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 洗牙 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tomorrow, I will book a dentist appointment.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 洗牙.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 洗牙.
Directly before
- 去洗牙1
- 预约洗牙1
Directly after
- 洗牙了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 洗牙
What does 洗牙 mean in Chinese?
洗牙 (xǐyá) means (dentistry) to perform or undergo scaling (removal of dental plaque and calculus).
How do you pronounce 洗牙?
洗牙 is pronounced xǐyá.
Is 洗牙 an HSK word?
洗牙 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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