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洗澡 (xǐ zǎo): meaning and stroke order

洗澡 (xǐ zǎo) means to bathe, to take a shower.

洗澡

Simplified
洗澡
Traditional
洗澡 (same form)
Pinyin
xǐ zǎo

Stroke order of 洗澡

洗

  • xǐ to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs)
  • xiǎn used in 洗馬|洗马[xian3 ma3]
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

澡

  • zǎo bath
  • 16 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 洗澡

  1. xǐ zǎo
    • to bathe
    • to take a shower

Radicals of the characters

洗
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 9 strokes · 氵 on the left, 先 on the right
澡
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 16 strokes · 氵 on the left, 喿 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.

洗澡 in our stories

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  • 甄太太住在一栋老楼的二层。她说，十点左右她在浴室洗澡，听到卧室里“咚”的一声。

    Zhēn tàitai zhù zài yí dòng lǎo lóu de èr céng tā shuō shí diǎn zuǒyòu tā zài yùshì xǐzǎo tīngdào wòshì lǐ dōng de yì shēng

    Mrs Zhen lived on the first floor of an old building. She said that around ten, while she was in the bath, she heard a thud in the bedroom.

    From the story The dry floor HSK 6

  • 七岁那年夏天，天气热得让人喘不过气来，哪吒跑到海边，把红绫放进水里洗澡。

    qī suì nà nián xiàtiān tiānqì rè de ràng rén chuǎn bú guò qì lái Nézhā pǎo dào hǎibiān bǎ hóng líng fàng jìn shuǐ lǐ xǐzǎo

    The summer he was seven, it was so hot people could hardly breathe; Nezha ran down to the shore and put the red sash in the water to bathe.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 洗澡

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).