HSK 4 · Places

卫生间 wèishēngjiān “bathroom” in Chinese

Traditional 衛生間

What 卫生间 means

  1. bathroom
  2. toilet
  3. WC

Measure word 间 jiān · 一间卫生间 yì jiān wèishēngjiān

How to say 卫生间

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale卫wèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale生shēng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale间jiān1st tone, high and level

卫生间 in a sentence

  1. 我去一下卫生间。

    Wǒ qù yíxià wèishēngjiān.

    I’m just going to the bathroom.

    Sentence #7817189 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 母亲让我打扫卫生间。

    Mǔqīn ràng wǒ dǎsǎo wèishēngjiān.

    My mother made me clean the bathroom.

    Sentence #769747 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我当时在卫生间。

    Wǒ dāngshí zài wèishēngjiān.

    I was in the bathroom at the time.

    Sentence #7767594 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 卫生间 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 卫 (wèi) drawn as one shape
卫wèito guard

卫 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 生 (shēng) drawn as one shape
生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce

生 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidA shoot growing up out of the soil 土: to grow, to be born.

The character 间 (jiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
间jiānbetween
  • 门gate · mén
  • 日sun · rì

Memory aidSunlight 日 coming through a gap in the gate 门: a gap, the space between, a room.

How to write 卫生间

卫 3 strokes · 生 5 strokes · 间 7 strokes

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卫生间 (wèishēngjiān) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 卫生间 (wèishēngjiān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 卫生间

Words with 卫

捍卫hànwèi · to defend保卫bǎowèi · to defend卫星wèixīng · satellite

Words with 生

医生yīshēng · doctor学生xuésheng · student先生xiānsheng · mr大学生dàxuéshēng · university student小学生xiǎoxuéshēng · primary school student中学生zhōngxuéshēng · middle-school student生日shēngrì · birthday生病shēngbìng · to get sick生气shēngqì · angry女生nǚshēng · female student

Words with 间

间jiān · (measure word for rooms)时间shíjiān · time房间fángjiān · room中间zhōngjiān · middle洗手间xǐshǒujiān · toilet之间zhījiān · between期间qījiān · period of time空间kōngjiān · space间隔jiàngé · interval瞬间shùnjiān · instant

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FAQs

卫生间 (wèishēngjiān) means “bathroom” or “toilet”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it wèishēngjiān: wèi with a 4th tone, then shēng with a 1st tone, then jiān with a 1st 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, 卫生间 is written 衛生間. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 间 (jiān). For example, one bathroom is 一间卫生间 (yì jiān wèishēngjiān).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weishengjian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 卫生间 from the suggestions. Typing weishengjian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
卫生间 is an HSK 4 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.