Kanji1 / 9
洗 kanji
wash, inquire into, probe
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
セン
Kun readings
あらう
Words with 洗
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —洗車car washing
- —洗滌washing; cleansing; cleaning; irrigation
- —筆洗brush cleaner; brush cleaning; brush washing; writing brush washer
- —洗米washed rice; rinsed rice; washing rice; offering of consecrated washed rice
- —洗足washing the feet
- —洗眼washing one's eyes
- —杯洗small vessel or bowl in which sake cups are rinsed
- —姑洗(in China) 5th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F sharp); third lunar month
- —洗骨washing of cremated bones before placing them in a funerary urn (esp. in Okinawa)
- —酸洗pickling; soaking a metal in an acidic solution to remove impurities
- —洗茶tea leaves which have been washed in hot water after drying
- —予洗prewashing
- —洗掘scouring (of a riverbed or seafloor)
- —洗薬wash; lotion
- —胃洗浄stomach pumping; gastric irrigation; gastric lavage; gastric suction; gastrolavage
- —再洗礼rebaptism; anabaptism
- —洗濯糊laundry starch
- —洗礼名Christian name; baptismal name
- —洗礼式baptismal ceremony; baptism
- —洗車場car wash