Neat in Chinese
neat · HSK 3
干净
- 干 to do
- 净 clean
房间打扫得很干净。 The room has been cleaned very well.
Other ways to say neat
More words with 干 or 净
How do you say neat in Chinese?
Neat in Chinese is 干净 (gān jìng). You can also say 齐 (qí), 整齐 (zhěng qí), 井 (jǐng).
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.