清
Meanings
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- 1.(of water etc) clear; clean
- 2.quiet; still
- 3.pure; uncorrupted
- 4.clear; distinct
- 5.to clear; to settle (accounts)
- 1.Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644–1911)
- 2.surname Qing
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Wiktionary
- 1.clear; limpid
- 2.clean; unstained
- 3.pure; unmixed
- 4.distinct; clear; apparent
- 5.fair and honest; upright
- 6.quiet; still
- 7.unaspirated
- 8.to clear (throat, etc.); to clean
- 9.to settle; to sort out
- 10.the Qing (Ching) dynasty (Manchu) (1644-1911)
- 11.dilute, thin
- 12.only; merely
- 13.a surname
- 14.excretion (清膿血 = excretion of pus and blood)
- 15.undigested (下利清穀 = diarrhea containing undigested food)
- 16.synonym of 師兄 /师兄 (si¹ hing¹)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰleŋ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 青 (OC *sʰleːŋ). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)s(j)aŋ (“clear; pure; clean”); cognate with Tibetan གཙང (gtsang, “clean; pure”), Mizo thiang (“to be clear; to be clean; to be pure”), Southern Qiang ɕó, Drung cangma (“clean”), Burmese စင် (cang, “clean, pure”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT). Within Chinese, cognate with 淨 (OC *zeŋs, “clean”), 醒 (OC *seːŋ, *seːŋʔ, *seːŋs, “to wake up; to become sober”), and allofamic with 星 (OC *sleːŋ, “star”), 晴 (OC *zleŋ, “(of weather) clear; fine”); possibly also related to 靜 (OC *zleŋʔ, “quiet”) (Schuessler, 2007). Perhaps an areal word; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *caŋ (“to glitter”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Components
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Example sentences
清掃你的房間。
Clean your room.
用濕布清潔窗戶。
Clean the window with a damp cloth.
谁能说清不同点？
Who can tell the difference?
我父親正在清掃車庫。
My father is sweeping the garage.
你從不清掃你的房間嗎？
Don't you ever clean your room?
這房間是由湯姆清掃的。
The room was cleaned by Tom.
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