洗

Translingual

Tracing.

Han character

洗 (radical 85 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水竹土山 (EHGU), four-corner 3411₁, composition ⿰氵先)

References

• KangXi: page 620, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17379
• Dae Jaweon: page 1016, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1608, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6D17

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		洗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xǐ (xi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): sé
• Min Nan (POJ): sé / sóe
• Wu (WT Romanisation): xi (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: hsih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shii
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai²
    • Yale: sái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai²
    • IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sé
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /se³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sé / sóe
    • Tâi-lô: sé / sué
    • IPA (Taipei): /se⁴¹/, /sue⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /se⁵³/, /sue⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: xi (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (洗, reconstructed)
Character (洗), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 齊 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 先禮切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/seiX/	/sieiX/	/seiX/	/seiX/	/sɛjX/	/sieiX/	/sɛiX/
Character (洗), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 心 (16) Final: 先 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 蘇典切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/senX/	/sienX/	/senX/	/senX/	/sɛnX/	/sienX/	/sɛnX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (洗, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
洗								xǐ								‹ sejX ›								/*[s]ˤərʔ/								wash
洗								xiǎn								‹ senX ›								/*sˤərʔ/								wash
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
洗					13457					先					微					1					洗					/*sɯːlʔ/
洗					13460					先					文					1					銑					/*sɯːnʔ/

Definitions

洗

1. to wash, to rinse
2. to clean, to purify
3. to develop (photo)

Compounds

Derived terms

• 洗頭／洗头 (xǐtóu)

• 洗髮劑／洗发剂 (xǐfàjì)

• 洗髮水／洗发水 (xǐfàshuǐ)

• 洗髮精／洗发精 (xǐfàjīng)

• 盥洗盆 (guànxǐpén)

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Japanese

Kanji

洗

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: あらう (洗う, arau), あらい (arai)

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Korean

Hanja

洗 (se, seon) (hangeul 세, 선, McCune-Reischauer se, sŏn, Yale sey, sen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

洗 (tẩy, dẫy, giẫy, rải, rảy, tiển)

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