水
Pinyin IPA [ʂweɪ˨˩˦] Zhuyin
HSK 1 noun 名词 Book 1 · Lesson 12 freq #335
Meaning
- noun 名词 water
Water. It appears in many compounds, such as 水果 (fruit, literally "water-fruit") and 开水 (boiled water).
- surname Shui
- Shui ethnic group
- (after a name) ... River
- to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4])
- (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy
- (bound form) additional cost; extra income
Measure Word
- 杯bēi
Examples
| 谁喝了水? | shuí hē le shuǐ | Who drank the water? |
| 有很多水。 | yǒu hěn duō shuǐ | There's plenty of water. |
| 我们没水。 | wǒ men méi shuǐ | We don't have any water. |
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