环卫 (huán wèi) — environmental sanitation (short for 环境卫生); environmental hygiene (referring to street cleaning, waste management, etc.)
Definition
A short form of 环境卫生, used in official, written, and news contexts to refer to street cleaning and waste management in cities — not a personal-hygiene term.
noun
environmental sanitation (short for 环境卫生)environmental hygiene (referring to street cleaning, waste management, etc.)
Examples
- 环卫。huán wèi Gōng rén měi tiān líng chén jiù kāi shǐ gōng zuò.Sanitation workers start their work every day before dawn.
- 环卫。Chéng shì huán wèi shuǐ píng fǎn yìng le jū mín de shēng huó zhì liàng.The level of urban sanitation reflects residents' quality of life.
- 环卫。Wǒ men yào zūn zhòng huán wèi rén yuán de láo dòng.We should respect the labor of sanitation workers.
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