一干二净

一乾二淨

yìgān-èrjìng

idiom HSK 7-9 #14,142

Meanings

1 thoroughly
2 completely
3 spotlessly clean

Characters

one; completely

Examples

HSK 3

他把钱花得一干二净。

Tā bǎ qián huā de yìgān-èrjìng.

He spent all the money completely.

HSK 3

我把这件事忘得一干二净。

Wǒ bǎ zhè jiàn shì wàng de yìgān-èrjìng.

I completely forgot about this matter.

Tips

memory

Think of it as 'one clean, two clean' - cleaned so thoroughly that nothing remains. Often used with 忘 (forget), 花 (spend), or 吃 (eat) to mean nothing is left.

Stroke Order

一 yī

干 gān

二 èr

净 jìng