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金jīn盆pén洗xǐ手shǒu

  1. lit. to wash one's hands in a gold basin (idiom); fig. to abandon the life of an outlaw

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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金
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

surname Jin, surname Kim (Korean), Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234)

Pinyin
Jīn
Strokes
8
Frequency
1377 of 2500
Words starting with 金Words ending in 金Anywhere in a word
盆
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

basin, flower pot, unit of volume equal to 12 斗[dou3] and 8 升[sheng1], approx 128 liters, CL:個|个[ge4]

Pinyin
pén
Strokes
9
Frequency
38927 of 2500
Words starting with 盆Words ending in 盆Anywhere in a word
洗
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to wash; to bathe, to develop (photographs), to shuffle (cards etc), to erase (a recording)

Pinyin
xǐ
Strokes
9
Frequency
1841 of 2500
Words starting with 洗Words ending in 洗Anywhere in a word
手
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

hand, (formal) to hold, person engaged in certain types of work, person skilled in certain types of work, personal(ly), convenient, classifier for skill, CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

Pinyin
shǒu
Strokes
4
Frequency
490 of 2500
Words starting with 手Words ending in 手Anywhere in a word