in English

to wash / to cleanse

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 滌, the traditional character: 涤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 滌 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 滌 Clerical script 東漢

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 到洗涤槽去帮忙洗碗盘吧!

    Go and help wash up at the sink!

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