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脏

zāng

dirty

A shirt covered with mud spots
Memory picture

Character

脏 zāng

Strokes
10
Radical
⺼ — meat, flesh
Made of
⺼ meat, flesh 庄 village, hamlet
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 衣服脏了。 Yīfu zāng le. The clothes got dirty.
  • 桌子很脏。 Zhuōzi hěn zāng. The table is very dirty.
  • 手别弄脏。 Shǒu bié nòng zāng. Do not get your hands dirty.

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