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洗

洗

Translingual

Stroke order

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (先) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
洗 *sɯːlʔ, *sɯːnʔ
先 *sɯːn, *sɯːns
銑 *sɯːnʔ
跣 *sɯːnʔ
毨 *sɯːnʔ
姺 *sɯːnʔ, *srin
筅 *sɯːnʔ
冼 *sɯːnʔ
箲 *sɯːnʔ
駪 *srin
兟 *srin
詵 *srin
侁 *srin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sɯːlʔ, *sɯːnʔ) : semantic 氵 ‎(“water”) + phonetic 先 ‎(OC *sɯːn, *sɯːns).

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 洗

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 洗 洗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 齊 (39) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV IV
Fanqie 先禮切 蘇典切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /seiX/ /senX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /seiX/ /senX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɛiX/ /sɛnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɛjX/ /sɛnX/
Li
Rong		 /seiX/ /senX/
Wang
Li		 /sieiX/ /sienX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /sieiX/ /sienX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xǐ xiǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 洗 洗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xǐ xiǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ sejX › ‹ senX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[s]ˤərʔ/ /*sˤərʔ/
English wash 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 洗 洗
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 13457 13460
Phonetic
component		 先 先
Rime
group		 微 文
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 洗 銑
Old
Chinese		 /*sɯːlʔ/ /*sɯːnʔ/

Definitions

洗

  1. to wash, to rinse
  2. to clean, to purify
  3. to develop (a photo)
  4. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 使 (sai2).

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

洗

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to wash

Readings

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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