I helped her wash dishes.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
洗碗
to wash the dishes
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to wash the dishes
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 洗碗 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 洗碗 appears in 25 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Can you help me with the washing up?
Bob was washing the dishes at that time.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 洗碗.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 洗碗.
Directly before
- 我洗碗5
- 要洗碗2
- 喜欢洗碗2
- 不想洗碗2
- 正在洗碗2
Directly after
- 洗碗了3
- 洗碗吗2
- 洗碗槽1
- 洗碗好1
- 洗碗是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 洗碗
What does 洗碗 mean in Chinese?
洗碗 (xǐwǎn) means to wash the dishes.
How do you pronounce 洗碗?
洗碗 is pronounced xǐwǎn.
Is 洗碗 an HSK word?
洗碗 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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