洗 (xǐ): meaning and stroke order
洗 (xǐ) means to wash; to bathe, to develop (photographs), to shuffle (cards etc).
洗
- Simplified
- 洗
- Traditional
- 洗 (same form)
- Pinyin
- xǐ · xiǎn
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Stroke order of 洗
洗
- xǐ to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs)
- xiǎn used in 洗馬|洗马[xian3 ma3]
- 9 strokes
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Meaning of 洗
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xǐ
- to wash; to bathe
- to develop (photographs)
- to shuffle (cards etc)
- to erase (a recording)
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xiǎn
- used in 洗馬|洗马[xian3 ma3]
Radical and structure
- 洗
- Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 9 strokes · 氵 on the left, 先 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 洗
- 洗澡 xǐ zǎo to bathe; to take a shower
- 洗冤集录 Xǐ yuān Jí lù "Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈[Song4 Ci2], said to be the world's first forensic science text
洗 in our stories
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他在晚年写下了一本书，叫“洗冤集录”，意思是洗清冤屈的记录，这是世界上最早的系统的法医学著作之一。
tā zài wǎnnián xiě xià le yì běn shū jiào Xǐyuān Jílù yìsi shì xǐ qīng yuānqū de jìlù zhè shì shìjiè shàng zuì zǎo de xìtǒng de fǎyīxué zhùzuò zhīyī
In his later years he wrote a book called Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified—a record of washing away wrongs—one of the world's earliest systematic works of forensic medicine.
From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Stories using 洗
- The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).