Illustration: At the outdoor sink of a Japanese home vegetable garden, a gardener rotates a freshly pulled daikon beneath running water. One side remains thick with soil, while the side under the stream is clean and smooth.

Beyond N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

水すい洗せん

suisen

to rinse, to flush with water

Example sentences

  1. 今いまはほとんどのトイレが水洗すいせんですよ。

    Most toilets nowadays flush.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 古ふるいものは穴あなの開あいた汲くみ取とり式しきのものが一般的いっぱんてきであり、定期的ていきてきにバキュームカーに汲くみ取とってもらう必要ひつようがあったが、水洗すいせん式しきが登場とうじょうしてから汲くみ取とり式しきは減少げんしょうした。

    The old lavatories were generally vault toilets that had a hole and needed to be regularly collected by a septic tank truck, but they have decreased in number with the appearance of water flush lavatories.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. これは排泄物はいせつぶつを溜ためるタンクが下したに存在そんざいしていることから、汲くみ取とり式便所しきべんじょとよく似にた原理げんりであったりするが、近年きんねんでは水洗すいせん式しきのものもある。

    They have a similar principle to the vault toilet because the tank which receives feces is below, but recently there are water flush ones too.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 水洗

  • 水waterOnスイKunみず・みず-
  • 洗wash; inquire intoOnセンKunあらう

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