涤
dí HSK7

wash

涤 (滌) dí
cleanse verb
to purify, purge, or clear away abstract or figurative things like sins or dust

我们要涤除旧思想，接受新观念。

wǒ​men yào dí chú jiù sī​xiǎng, jiē​shòu xīn guān​niàn.

We should get rid of old thoughts and embrace new ideas.

wash verb
to wash with water; to rinse or clean clothes or objects

这件衣服需要反复洗涤才能干净。

zhè jiàn yī​fu xū​yào fǎn​fù xǐ dí cái néng gān​jìng.

This garment needs repeated washing to get clean.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,218th most common 7.50 per million
Movie subtitles
3,630th most common 1.17 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.45 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
滌
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6DA4

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