卫生间

Character by character

• 卫wèi3 strokesHSK 3 traditional 衛guard, protect, defend
• 生shēng5 strokesHSK 1life, living, lifetime; birth
• 间jiān7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 間midpoint, space; place, locality

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.

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• 我去一下卫生间。

  Wǒ qù yī xià wèi shēng jiān

  I'll go to the toilet.

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Words with the same characters

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

• 时间shí jiānHSK 1

  time; period

• 生活shēng huóHSK 2

  to live; life; livelihood

• 发生fā shēngHSK 3

  to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out

• 之间zhī jiānHSK 4

  (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间)

• 间jiānHSK 1

  between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms

• 生shēngHSK 2

  to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student

• 先生xiān shengHSK 1

  teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor

• 学生xué shengHSK 1

  student; schoolchild

• 生命shēng mìngHSK 3

  life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature

• 医生yī shēngHSK 1

  doctor

• 人生rén shēngHSK 3

  life (one's time on earth)

• 产生chǎn shēngHSK 3

  to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate

• 空间kōng jiānHSK 4

  space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway; (astronomy) outer space; (physics, math.) space

• 房间fáng jiānHSK 1

  room

• 生日shēng rìHSK 1

  birthday

• 一生yī shēngHSK 2

  all one's life; throughout one's life

• 期间qī jiānHSK 4

  period of time; time; time period; period

• 中间zhōng jiānHSK 1

  the middle; the inside; in the middle; within; between; among; during; in the meantime

• 女生nǚ shēngHSK 1

  schoolgirl; female student; girl

• 出生chū shēngHSK 2

  to be born

• 生意shēng yìHSK 3

  life force; vitality

• 生气shēng qìHSK 1

  to get angry; to take offense; angry; vitality; liveliness

• 生物shēng wùHSK 7

  organism; living creature; life form; biological

• 生产shēng chǎnHSK 3

  to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child