一 yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
一干二净
yìgān'èrjìng
thoroughly; completely
Characters in this word
干 gān
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 十 — ten, tenth
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
净 jìng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 冫 — ice
- Made of
- 冫 ice 争 to dispute, to fight, to contend, to strive
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 台风过后，沙滩上的垃圾被志愿者清理得一干二净。 Táifēng guòhòu, shātān shàng de lājī bèi zhìyuànzhě qīnglǐ de yìgān'èrjìng. After the typhoon, the trash on the beach was cleaned up completely by volunteers.
- 他把房间打扫得一干二净，连窗台上的灰尘都没有了。 Tā bǎ fángjiān dǎsǎo de yìgān'èrjìng, lián chuāngtái shàng de huīchén dōu méiyǒu le. He cleaned the room thoroughly; even the dust on the windowsill was gone.
- 弟弟把盘子里的蛋糕吃得一干二净。 Dìdi bǎ pánzi lǐ de dàngāo chī de yìgān'èrjìng. The younger brother ate the cake on the plate down to the last crumb.
Related words
- 一 yī one
- 一半 yíbàn half
- 一会儿 yíhuìr a moment, a little while
- 一块儿 yíkuàir together
- 一下儿 yíxiàr a bit, briefly (after a verb)
- 一样 yíyàng the same, alike
- 一边 yìbiān one side; while (doing two things at once)
- 一点儿 yìdiǎnr a little, a bit
- 一起 yìqǐ together
- 一些 yìxiē some, a few
- 不一定 bùyídìng not necessarily
- 不一会儿 bùyíhuìr in a short while