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干净

gān jìng

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 乾淨

干净 (gān jìng) means "clean". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 干净 means

1. clean
2. neat

The characters in 干净

• 干gāndry; dried food; empty; hollow
• 净jìngclean; completely; only

Example sentences

• 浴室干净吗？
  Is the bath clean?
• 教室很干净。
  The classroom is clean.
• 厨房不干净。
  The kitchen is not clean.
• 雨水是干净的。
  Yǔshuǐ shì gānjìng de.
  Rainwater is clean.
• 你的手干净吗?
  Are your hands clean?
• 汤姆是干净的。
  Tom is clean.

Words starting with 干净

• 干净利落gān jìng lì luosqueaky clean; neat and tidy; efficient

Words containing 干净

• 手脚不干净shǒu jiǎo bù gān jìngthieving; light-fingered; prone to stealing

Where 干净 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Qualities, Adverbs & Degree Words (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gān jìng correctly.
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