Clean in Chinese
to clean · HSK 3
打扫
- 打 to hit
- 扫 to sweep
周末我要打扫房间。 I'm going to clean my room this weekend.
Other ways to say clean
More words with 打 or 扫
How do you say clean in Chinese?
Clean in Chinese is 打扫 (dǎ sǎo). You can also say 干净 (gān jìng), 净 (jìng), 清 (qīng), 清洁 (qīng jié).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.