DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

凈身出戶

简净身出户 · 繁凈身出戶

Mandarin · pinyin jìng shēn chū hù

to leave a marriage with nothing (no possessions or property)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

凈: Look up this written character
身: shēn · body; trunk, hull; Kangxi radical 158
出: chū · go out, send out; stand; produce
戶: Look up this written character
净: jìng · clean, pure; cleanse
户: hù · door; family

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–1–1–4 · jing4 shen1 chu1 hu4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

5character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

凈身出戶 · find source passages ↗ · 净身出户 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗