Dictionary › 一干二净

一干二净

yī gān èr jìng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 一乾二淨

一干二净 (yī gān èr jìng) means "thoroughly (idiom); completely; one and all". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 一干二净 means

1. thoroughly (idiom)
2. completely
3. one and all
4. very clean

The characters in 一干二净

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 干gāndry; dried food; empty; hollow
• 二èrtwo; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid
• 净jìngclean; completely; only

Example sentences

• 她把东西吃得一干二净。
  Tā bǎ dōngxi chī de yīgān'èrjìng.
  She completely cleaned her plate.
• 珍的男朋友一口气把整个巧克力蛋糕吃得一干二净，把珍看得目瞪口呆。
  Zhēn de nánpéngyou yīkǒuqì bǎ zhěnggè qiǎokèlì dàngāo chī de yīgān'èrjìng, bǎ zhēn kàn de mùdèngkǒudāi.
  Jane could not believe it when her date polished off an entire chocolate cake.

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yī gān èr jìng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.