洪水 (hóng shuǐ): meaning and stroke order

洪水 in our stories

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• 四千多年前，黄河发了一场大洪水，房屋被冲走，田地变成了一片汪洋。

  sìqiān duō nián qián Huáng Hé fā le yì cháng dà hóngshuǐ fángwū bèi chōng zǒu tiándì biànchéng le yí piàn wāngyáng

  More than four thousand years ago the Yellow River flooded: houses were swept away and the fields became a vast sheet of water.

  From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6

• 更可怕的是，天空破了一个大窟窿，大火从天上烧下来，洪水从地下涌出来，猛兽四处伤人。

  gèng kěpà de shì tiānkōng pò le yí gè dà kūlong dà huǒ cóng tiān shàng shāo xiàlai hóngshuǐ cóng dì xià yǒng chūlai měngshòu sìchù shāng rén

  Worse still, a great hole tore open in the sky: fire rained down from above, floods gushed up from below, and wild beasts attacked people everywhere.

  From the story Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7

• 白素贞一气之下，调动江里的虾兵蟹将，引来滔天的洪水，淹向金山寺。这就是有名的“水漫金山”。

  Bái Sùzhēn yíqìzhīxià diàodòng jiāng lǐ de xiābīngxièjiàng yǐnlái tāotiān de hóngshuǐ yān xiàng Jīnshān Sì zhè jiùshì yǒumíng de shuǐmànjīnshān

  In her fury Bai Suzhen summoned the shrimp soldiers and crab generals of the river and brought a towering flood against Jinshan Temple. This is the famous "Flooding of Jinshan".

  From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9