洗地

Chinese

		to wash	ground; floor
trad. (洗地)		洗	地
simp. #(洗地)		洗	地

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xǐdì

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˇ ㄉㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai² dei⁶
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): soi² di⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xǐdì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˇ ㄉㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sǐdì
    • Wade–Giles: hsi³-ti⁴
    • Yale: syǐ-dì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiidih
    • Palladius: сиди (sidi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹ ti⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai² dei⁶
    • Yale: sái deih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai² dei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei² déi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯³⁵ tei̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: soi² di⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sói tī
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /soi⁵²⁻³⁵ ti¹¹/

Verb

洗⫽地 (verb-object)

1. (literally) to wash the ground; to clean the floor. Emerged after the 1894 Hong Kong plague. See also 洗太平地.
2. (neologism, derogatory, figuratively) to justify and defend someone's wrongdoing; to whitewash. From the line of Stephen Chow movie Kung Fu Hustle "警察出來洗地啦", in which a gang member asking alleged-police to clean the site after a bloody fighting.
3. (military, informal) to perform an area bombing; to bomb a large area indiscriminately; to carpet bomb