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卫生

wèi shēng 4–1

health; hygiene; sanitation

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
卫 · 生
Syllables
2
wèi shēng
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 3,002

Part of speech: an,a

Character by character

  • 卫wèi3 strokesHSK 3 traditional 衛guard, protect, defend
  • 生shēng5 strokesHSK 1life, living, lifetime; birth

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我当时在卫生间。

    Wǒ dāng shí zài wèi shēng jiān

    I was in the bathroom.

  • 我去一下卫生间。

    Wǒ qù yī xià wèi shēng jiān

    I'll go to the toilet.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 卫生. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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