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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洗* | 洗* | *洗
to wash; to bathe / to develop (photographs) / to shuffle (cards etc) / to erase (a recording)
HSK 1
toilet / lavatory / washroom
HSK 1
washing machine; washer / CL: 臺|台
HSK 2
to bathe / to take a shower
HSK 2
to wash; to rinse; to clean / (fig.) to purge; to get rid of (corrupt individuals etc)
HSK 6
laundry detergent / washing powder
HSK 6
cleaning agent / detergent
HSK 7-9
baptism (lit. or fig.)
HSK 7-9
to rinse; to wash / (photography) to develop (film)
HSK 7-9
kitchen sink
liquid hand soap
laundry
liquid laundry detergent
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洗* | 洗* | *洗
lit. to wash one's heart and renew one's face (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways / to turn over a new leaf
to wash / to cleanse / to launder
to bathe
to have dialysis treatment
facial cleansing
to wash one's hair / to have a shampoo
nail polish remover
to rinse / to wash / washing
to launder money
to wash clean
shampoo
dishwasher
to dry clean / dry cleaning
to brainwash
laundry (commercial establishment)
to wash one's hands / to go to the toilet
to wash the face and rinse the mouth
to cleanse / to purge / to wash away
washbowl / basin for washing hands and face
dishwashing liquid
to shuffle cards, dominoes or mahjong tiles etc / (fig.) to reshuffle; to reorganize; to shake up; to restructure
to receive baptism / baptized
agile / nimble / deft
to erase / to wipe out (a previous humiliation etc)
dishwashing liquid
penniless
to listen with respectful attention / (a polite request to sb to speak) / we are all ears
to bathe one's face in tears (idiom)
(medicine) to give or receive gastric lavage; to get one's stomach pumped
to wash and starch
toilet / washroom / bathroom / lavatory / CL: 間|间
to be baptized
to loot; to ransack; to pillage
shampoo
to wipe clean / to scrub / (fig.) to get rid of (a bad reputation, a misconception etc)
extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
lit. even jumping into the Yellow River can't get you clean / fig. to become inexorably mixed up / mired in controversy / in deep trouble
to carry out a bloodbath in (a place) / (fig.) to wreak havoc on
commercial laundry / cleaners
(dentistry) to perform or undergo scaling (removal of dental plaque and calculus)
to wash
to clean (with water or alcohol) / to wipe and wash / to swab / to scrub
to rub clean (garments) / to scrub
to unpick and wash (e.g. padded garment)
without two nickels to rub together (idiom) / impoverished
to rinse (clothes)
lit. to renew one's face and wash one's heart (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways / to turn over a new leaf
Jezebel, wife of Ahab and mother of Ahaziah, major character in 1 Kings 16:31, 19:1, 21 and 2 Kings 9, killed by Jehu 耶戶|耶户
to wash
to right a wrong; to redress an injustice
to totally stop doing something / to reform one's ways
dishwashing liquid
variant of 洗練|洗练
to wash the dishes
cleansing lotion
vanity unit
bathroom sink / wash basin
laundromat / launderette
liquid hand soap
laundry room
to clean the floor / (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor / (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing / to defend (a wrongdoer) / (coll.) to carpet-bomb
to make sth clean and white / (fig.) to whitewash / to launder money
(official title) herald to the crown prince (in imperial China)
shampoo
baptize
to immerse / to rinse
shampoo
hand sanitizer
bathing and recreation center
"ethnic cleansing" / genocide
to wash (clothes)
washbowl
to roll a ball into the gutter (ten-pin bowling)
detergent
mesh laundry bag (for keeping garments separate from others in the washing machine)
shampoo powder
when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom) / fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality
high pressure washer
bidet
"Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" (1247) by Song Ci 宋慈, said to be the world's first forensic science text
basin (water container)
to modify a text so it can be plagiarized without detection (neologism c. 2014, formed by analogy with 洗錢|洗钱, to launder money)
to greenwash
money laundering
baptism (Christian ceremony)
alcohol-based hand sanitizer

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