洗
xǐxiǎn HSK1

wash

洗 xǐ frequency
wash verb
to wash or bathe

这些水果洗干净以后，你就可以直接吃了。

zhè​xiē shuǐ​guǒ xǐ gān​jìng yǐ​hòu, nǐ jiù kě​yǐ zhí​jiē chī le.

You can eat these fruits right away once they've been washed clean.

develop verb
to develop photographs

我需要去洗几张照片。

wǒ xū​yào qù xǐ jǐ zhāng zhào​piàn.

I need to have some photos developed.

erase verb
to erase a recording

不小心把录音洗掉了。

bù xiǎo​xīn bǎ lù​yīn xǐ diào le.

I accidentally erased the recording.

shuffle verb
to shuffle cards or tiles

大家抓牌之前，请你先把这些扑克牌洗一下。

dà​jiā zhuā pái zhī​qián, qǐng nǐ xiān bǎ zhè​xiē pū​kè​pái xǐ yī​xià.

Please shuffle these cards before everyone starts drawing.

洗 xiǎn
official title verb
used in the ancient official title 洗马 xiǎn​mǎ (attendant to the crown prince)

魏征在唐朝曾担任太子洗马一职。

Wèi Zhēng zài Táng​cháo céng dān​rèn tài​zǐ xiǎn​mǎ yī zhí.

Wei Zheng once served as the Librarian to the Crown Prince during the Tang Dynasty.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,247th most common 104.5 per million
Movie subtitles
727th most common 175.5 per million appears in 53% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
104.2 per million appears in 31% of films
Written text
77.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+6D17

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)