湔雪

jiānxuě
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to wipe away (a humiliation)
  2. 2 to redress (a wrong)
  3. 3 to clear (one's name)

Examples

Tā shì yào jiānxuě dāngnián de yuānqū.
He vowed to clear the injustice he suffered back then.
Zhè chǎng shènglì jiānxuě le qiúduì duōnián de chǐrǔ.
This victory wiped away the team's shame of many years.

Tips

memory
Both (jiān, 'to wash') and (xuě, 'to wash clean / avenge') mean 'wash away' here — the word stacks two synonyms for emphasis. Note: takes its verbal sense, not 'snow'.
register
Highly literary. You'll meet it in editorials and historical writing about clearing names or avenging defeats; almost never in conversation.

Stroke Order

jiān
xuě