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洗手间

xǐ shǒu jiān

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 2 3-character word Traditional 洗手間

洗手间 (xǐ shǒu jiān) means "toilet". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 洗手间 means

1. toilet
2. lavatory
3. washroom

The characters in 洗手间

• 洗xǐto wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc)
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work
• 间jiānbetween; among; within a definite time or space

Example sentences

• 洗手间没人。
  Bathroom's free.
• 我去下洗手间。
  Wǒ qù xià xǐshǒujiān.
  I'm going to the restroom.
• 洗手间在哪里？
  Where is the bathroom?
• 我想去洗手间。
  I want to go to the bathroom.
• 我可以去洗手间吗？
  Wǒ kěyǐ qù xǐshǒujiān ma?
  May I go to the restroom?
• 她刚从洗手间回来。
  Tā gāng cóng xǐshǒujiān huílai.
  She just came back from the restroom.

Where 洗手间 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xǐ shǒu jiān correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.