洗手间 (洗手間)
xǐ shǒu jiān
Pinyin

Definition

洗手间 (洗手間)
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xǐ shǒu jiān
  1. toilet
  2. lavatory
  3. washroom

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

分手
fēn shǒu
  1. 1 to part company
  2. 2 to split up
  3. 3 to break up
射手座
Shè shǒu zuò
  1. 1 Sagittarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
  2. 2 popular variant of 人馬座|人马座[Rén mǎ zuò]
手
shǒu
  1. 1 hand
  2. 2 (formal) to hold
  3. 3 person engaged in certain types of work
  4. 4 person skilled in certain types of work
  5. 5 personal(ly)
  6. 6 convenient
  7. 7 classifier for skill
  8. 8 classifier: 双 shuāng
  9. 9 classifier: 只 zhī
手机
shǒu jī
  1. 1 cell phone
  2. 2 mobile phone
  3. 3 classifier: 部 bù
  4. 4 classifier: 支 zhī
洗
xǐ
  1. 1 to wash
  2. 2 to bathe
  3. 3 to develop (photo)

Idioms (20)

一手交钱，一手交货
yī shǒu jiāo qián , yī shǒu jiāo huò
  1. 1 lit. one hand exchanges the cash, the other the goods (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to pay for what you want in cash
  3. 3 simple and direct transaction
七手八脚
qī shǒu bā jiǎo
  1. 1 (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
上下其手
shàng xià qí shǒu
  1. 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
  2. 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
不怕神一样的对手，就怕猪一样的队友
bù pà shén yī yàng de duì shǒu , jiù pà zhū yī yàng de duì yǒu
  1. 1 a boneheaded teammate can do you more harm than the most formidable opponent (idiom)
人有失手，马有失蹄
rén yǒu shī shǒu , mǎ yǒu shī tí
  1. 1 lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. everyone makes mistakes
  3. 3 even the best fall down sometimes

Sample Sentences

男洗手间
nán xǐshǒujiān
male washroom
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女洗手间
nǚ xǐshǒujiān
female washroom
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哦。不好意思，请问洗手间在哪里？
ò 。bùhǎoyìsi ，qǐngwèn xǐshǒujiān zài nǎli ？
Ah. Sorry, may I ask where the bathroom is?
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不好意思，能不能借我过一下，我想去趟洗手间…等一下好了，空服员像是要送餐了。
bùhǎoyìsi ，néngbùnéng jiè wǒ guò yīxià ，wǒ xiǎng qù tāng xǐshǒujiān …děng yīxià hǎo le ，kōngfúyuán xiàng shì yào sòng cān le 。
Excuse me, could you let me pass? I need to go to the bathroom...actually, I can wait a bit, the flight attendants seem like they are about to serve our meals.
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不好意思，我想先去洗手间。
bùhǎoyìsi ，wǒ xiǎng xiān qù xǐshǒujiān 。
I'm sorry, I would like to go to the washroom first.
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洗手间
xǐshǒujiān
washroom
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我来告诉你吧。她家的洗手间放着卡耐基的《人性的弱点》，床头放着张德芬的《遇见未知的自己》。对了，听说这本书可是华语世界第一部心灵小说，很多人因为这本书改变了对生活的看法呢！不过，像我这样不是很爱看书的懒人，还是喜欢看看微信里大家转发的一些小文章。
wǒ lái gàosu nǐ ba 。tā jiā de xǐshǒujiān fàngzhe kǎnàijī de 《rénxìngderuòdiǎn 》，chuángtóu fàngzhe zhāngdéfēn de 《yùjiàn wèizhī de zìjǐ 》。duìle ，tīngshuō zhè běn shū kěshì huáyǔshìjiè dìyī bù xīnlíngxiǎoshuō ，hěn duō rén yīnwèi zhè běn shū gǎibiàn le duì shēnghuó de kànfǎ ne ！bùguò ，xiàng wǒ zhèyàng bùshì hěn ài kàn shū de lǎn rén ，háishì xǐhuan kànkan wēixìn lǐ dàjiā zhuǎnfā de yīxiē xiǎo wénzhāng 。
I'll tell you! In the bathroom she's got Carnegie's “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. By her bed, she's got Zhang Defen's “Encountering the Unknown Self”. Anyway, I've heard this book is the Sinosphere's number one self-help book. Many people have changed their views on life because of this book! However, I'm one of those lazy people who doesn't like to read. I prefer to read the messages that people forward me on WeChat.
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你又要去洗手间？
nǐ yòu yào qù xǐshǒujiān ？
You need to go to the bathroom again?
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不好意思，我去一下洗手间。
bùhǎoyìsi ，wǒ qù yīxià xǐshǒujiān 。
I'm sorry. I'm going to the bathroom for a bit.
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一个商店里面，然后呢，我那天就跑进去，那个化妆品柜台的销售超级超级热情地跑过来跟我说：“哎呀，小姐，你的那个皮肤看上去真好，然后你的皮肤一定要好好地保养，然后的话，你看我们这个化妆水怎么样怎么样好，这个东西怎么好，你用了肯定好。”那个销售说：“要不要试一试？”我非常非常遗憾地看了她一眼，就说：“不好意思，小姐，请问，洗手间在哪里。”
yī gè shāngdiàn lǐmiàn ，ránhòu ne ，wǒ nà tiān jiù pǎo jìnqu ，nàge huàzhuāngpǐn guìtái de xiāoshòu chāojí chāojí rèqíng de pǎo guòlai gēn wǒ shuō ：“āiyā ，xiǎojie ，nǐ de nàge pífū kàn shangqu zhēn hǎo ，ránhòu nǐ de pífū yīdìng yào hǎohāo de bǎoyǎng ，ránhòu dehuà ，nǐ kàn wǒmen zhè ge huàzhuāngshuǐ zěnmeyàng zěnmeyàng hǎo ，zhè ge dōngxi zěnme hǎo ，nǐ yòng le kěndìng hǎo 。”nàge xiāoshòu shuō ：“yàobuyào shì yi shì ？”wǒ fēicháng fēicháng yíhàn de kàn le tā yī yǎn ，jiù shuō ：“bùhǎoyìsi ，xiǎojie ，qǐngwèn ，xǐshǒujiān zài nǎli 。”
So there's a shop, and one day I ran in there, and the salesperson at the cosmetics counter was super, super enthusiastic as she ran over to me. She said, "Oh, miss, your skin looks really nice! So you really need to protect your skin." And then it was about how great their toner is, and how great this other thing is, and if you use them the results are definitely going to be great. And then the salesperson said, "would you like to try them out?" I told her with an extremely regretful look, "I'm sorry, miss, but could you tell me where the restroom is?"
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