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消毒

xiāo dú

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

消毒 (xiāo dú) means "to disinfect; to sterilize". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 消毒 means

1. to disinfect; to sterilize

The characters in 消毒

• 消xiāoto diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time)
• 毒dúpoison; to poison; poisonous

Example sentences

• 雅尼刚刚对他的挤奶桶进行了消毒。
  Yanni has just sterilized his milking bucket.

Words starting with 消毒

• 消毒洗手液xiāo dú xǐ shǒu yèhand sanitizer
• 消毒剂xiāo dú jìdisinfectant

Where 消毒 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiàng–xiào (HSK 6), 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 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiāo dú correctly.
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