- lit. to wash one's heart and renew one's face (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways
- to turn over a new leaf
Characters
- 洗 (洗): to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc); to erase (a recording)
- 心 (心): heart; mind; intention; center; core; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- 革 (革): animal hide; leather; to reform; to remove; to expel (from office)
- 面 (面): face; side; surface; aspect; top; classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc
Resources
- Wiktionary: 洗心革面
- MDBG: 洗心革面
- Examples with 洗心革面 on Tatoeba
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