尘
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dust; dirt; earth
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 小 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 塵
- Common rank
- #1,400
- Unicode
- U+5C18
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Words with 尘
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一路风尘 | to live an exhausting journey | |
| 步人后尘 | to follow in other people's footsteps | |
| 心细如尘 | meticulous; very careful or attentive | |
| 满脸风尘 | lit. with a face full of dust; showing the hardships of travel (idiom) | |
| 看破红尘 | (idiom) to see through the illusions of the material world (often a precursor to becoming … | |
| 一尘不染 | (idiom) untainted by even a speck of dust; spotlessly clean; (of a person) honest; incorru… | |
| 尘埃落定 | "Red Poppies", novel by 阿來|阿来[A1 lai2] | |
| 尘埃落定 | lit. the dust has settled (idiom); fig. to get sorted out; to be finalized | |
| 满身尘埃 | dusty | |
| 除尘机 | dusting machine; dust filter | |
| 风尘 | windblown dust; hardships of travel; vicissitudes of life; prostitution | |
| 吸尘机 | vacuum cleaner | |
| 红尘 | the world of mortals (Buddhism); human society; worldly affairs | |
| 后尘 | lit. trailing dust; fig. sb's footsteps; course in life | |
| 吸尘器 | vacuum cleaner | |
| 沙尘暴 | sand and dust storm | |
| 前尘 | the past; impurity contracted previously (in the sentient world) (Buddhism) | |
| 尘世 | (religion) this mortal life; the mundane world | |
| 尘土 | dust | |
| 沙尘 | airborne sand and dust |