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卫生间

wèi shēng jiān

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 3 3-character word Traditional 衛生間 Measure word 间

卫生间 (wèi shēng jiān) means "bathroom; restroom". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 卫生间 means

1. bathroom
2. toilet
3. WC

The characters in 卫生间

• 卫wèito guard; to protect; to defend
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 间jiānbetween; among; within a definite time or space

Example sentences

• 我去一下卫生间。
  Wǒ qù yīxià wèishēngjiān.
  I'll go to the toilet.
• 我当时在卫生间。
  Wǒ dāngshí zài wèishēngjiān.
  I was in the bathroom.
• 汤姆现在在卫生间。
  Tāngmǔ xiànzài zài wèishēngjiān.
  Tom is in the bathroom now.
• 汤姆进入了卫生间。
  Tom walked into the bathroom.
• 母亲让我打扫卫生间。
  Mother made me clean the bathroom.
• 服务站的卫生间大多很脏。
  The toilets at motorway service stations are often very dirty.

Where 卫生间 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Home, Stability & Daily Life (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wèi shēng jiān correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.