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  *洗* | 洗* | *洗
to wash; to bathe / to develop (photographs) / to shuffle (cards etc) / to erase (a recording)
HSK 1
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  *染* | 染* | *染
to dye / to catch (a disease) / to acquire (bad habits etc) / to contaminate / to add color washes to a painting
HSK 5
to wash; to rinse; to clean / (fig.) to purge; to get rid of (corrupt individuals etc)
HSK 6
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  *淘* | 淘* | *淘
to wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities) / to dredge; to scoop out (sediment or waste) / (dialect) to hunt for and buy (bargains or second-hand goods) / (dialect) naughty; mischievous
HSK 7-9
(of soil etc) to wash away / to be eroded / (fig.) (of talented staff, followers of a religious faith, investment funds etc) to go elsewhere / to fail to be retained
HSK 7-9
to rinse; to wash / (photography) to develop (film)
HSK 7-9
to shrink (in the wash) / fig. to shrink (of profits etc)
HSK 7-9
dispirited and downcast (idiom); listless / in low spirits / washed out
HSK 7-9
spirit weary, strength exhausted (idiom); spent / drained / washed out
HSK 7-9
to wash out / (fig.) to cull / to weed out / to eliminate / to die out / to phase out
HSK 7-9
to wash the medicine down
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  *澉* | 澉* | *澉
place name / wash
to wash the face and rinse the mouth
to rinse / to wash / washing
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
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  *沃* | 沃* | *沃
fertile / rich / to irrigate / to wash (of river)
to wash one's hair / to have a shampoo
rendering (computing) / to add washes of ink or color to a drawing (Chinese painting) / to exaggerate / to embellish
to wash the face
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  *渲* | 渲* | *渲
wash (color)
to unpick and wash (e.g. padded garment)
to pump water / (coll.) to shrink in the wash
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *涤* | 涤* | *涤
to wash / to cleanse
to swing one's arms / to wash one's hands of sth
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *浣* | 浣* | *浣
to wash / to rinse / any of three 10-day division of the month (during Tang dynasty) / Taiwan pr. [huan3] / also pr. [wan3]
to wash up; to freshen up
to wash off
spirit weary, strength exhausted (idiom); spent / drained / washed out
to wash one's hands / to go to the toilet
to cleanse / to scrub / to scour / to wash down / to erode / to wash away
to wash silk
to clean (with water or alcohol) / to wipe and wash / to swab / to scrub
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *濯* | 濯* | *濯
to wash / to cleanse of evil
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 cleanse / to purge / to wash away
to wash
to wash / to cleanse / to launder
listless / dispirited / washed out / also written 沒精打彩|没精打彩
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洴* | 洴* | *洴
wash / bleach (fabric)
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  *盥* | 盥* | *盥
to wash (especially hands)
to wash and starch
to wash off dust
to wash one's hands of sth; to have nothing further to do with sth
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *沷* | 沷* | *沷
to remove evil / to cleanse / to wash away
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *糔* | 糔* | *糔
to wash (rice etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *汏* | 汏* | *汏
to wash (dialect)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *湔* | 湔* | *湔
to wash / to redress (a wrong) / name of a river
to smudge (become smeared) / to smudge (create a blurred effect) / shading (wash painting technique)
to wash / to rinse
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *荡* | 荡* | *荡
to wash / to squander / to sweep away / to move / to shake / dissolute / pond
lit. to wash one's hands in a gold basin (idiom) / fig. to abandon the life of an outlaw
to wash clothes
to wash away / to eliminate / to do away with
to wash off
ink and wash painting
to wash an ink-slab / to prepare for study (idiom)
to wash away / to eradicate
to wash the dishes
to irrigate / to wash with water
to wash / to rinse
to strain / to wash and filter
to wash / to cleanse
to wash one's feet
bathroom sink / wash basin
to wash one's hands / (fig.) to go to the toilet
to wash
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) / fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
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 rinse the mouth and wash the face
to rinse / to wash / to clean / to purge / to comb out
to wash
body wash (liquid soap) / shower gel
to wash clean
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
topless car wash
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
lit. to comb one's hair in the wind and wash it in the rain (idiom) / fig. to work in the open regardless of the weather
(coll.) to wash one's hands of a matter
listless / dispirited / washed out
to wash out / to leach
bathroom sink / wash basin
to wash (clothes)
body wash
to wash
to wash the dirt to find a defect (idiom); to find fault / to nitpick
to wash oneself
to wash / to rinse
lit. to fling off a bundle / fig. to abandon one's responsibility for sth / to wash one's hands of the matter
wash-resistant


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