HSK 4 · Adjectives

脏 zāng “dirty” in Chinese

Traditional 髒

What 脏 means

  1. dirty
  2. filthy
  3. to get (sth) dirty

How to say 脏

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale脏zāng1st tone, high and level

脏 in a sentence

  1. 你的衬衫脏了。

    Nǐ de chènshān zāng le.

    Your shirt is dirty.

    Sentence #13911124 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她把脏盘子放进水池里。

    Tā bǎ zāng pánzi fàngjìn shuǐchí lǐ.

    She put the dirty plates in the sink.

    Sentence #866752 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这条裤子很脏。

    Zhè tiáo kùzi hěn zāng.

    These trousers are dirty.

    Sentence #9464013 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 脏 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 脏 (zāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
脏zāngdirty
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 庄village · zhuāngSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 庄 (zhuāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zāng.

How to write 脏

脏 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

脏 (zāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 脏 (zāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 脏

Words with 脏

心脏xīnzàng · heart

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FAQs

脏 (zāng) means “dirty” or “filthy”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it zāng: zāng 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, 脏 is written 髒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 脏 from the suggestions. Typing zang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
脏 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.