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洗地

Cantonese · source Jyutpingsai2 dei6

clean the floor
to clean up someone's sins committed (spoken)

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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sai22 · high risingdei66 · low level

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Same syllable, six tones

sai西sai1west 洗sai2to wash 世sai3lifesai4—sai5—逝sai6to pass

deidei1—dei2—dei3—dei4—dei5—地dei6-ly

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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洗地

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CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

洗地 xǐ dì CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto clean the floor; (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor; (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing; to defend (a wrongdoer); (coll.) to carpet-bomb

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: xi3 di4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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sai2 dei6

Cantonese word readings for 洗地. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

(literally) to wash the ground; to clean the floor. Emerged after the 1894 Hong Kong plague. See also 洗太平地.
(neologism, derogatory, figuratively) to justify and defend someone's wrongdoing; to whitewash. From the line of Stephen Chow movie Kung Fu Hustle "警察出來洗地啦", in which a gang member asking alleged-police to clean the site after a bloody fighting.
(military, informal) to perform an area bombing; to bomb a large area indiscriminately; to carpet bomb

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