Sentence #9962473 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 干净 is built
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干gāndry
一one · yī
十ten · shí
Memory aidDrawn from a forked stick used as a weapon or shield. As a simplified character it also stands for 乾 “dry” and 幹 “to do”.
净jìngclean
冫ice · bīngMeaning part
争to dispute · zhēngSound part
冫 hints at the meaning (ice); 争 (zhēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with jìng.
How to write 干净
干 3 strokes · 净 8 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 干净 (gānjìng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
干净 (gānjìng) means “clean” or “neat and tidy”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it gānjìng: gān with a 1st tone, then jìng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 干净 is written 乾淨. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ganjing with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 干净 from the suggestions. Typing ganjing into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
干净 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
干gān1st tone, high and level
净jìng4th tone, falling
