水 (shuǐ): meaning and stroke order
水 (shuǐ) means water, (after a name) ... River, to swim (used mostly in 会水 and 水性).
水
- Simplified
- 水
- Traditional
- 水 (same form)
- Pinyin
- shuǐ
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Stroke order of 水
水
- Shuǐ surname Shui
- shuǐ water; (after a name) ... River
- 4 strokes
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Meaning of 水
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shuǐ
- water
- (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
- classifier for washings of a garment
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Shuǐ
- surname Shui
Radical and structure
- 水
- Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 4 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 水
- 海水 hǎi shuǐ seawater
- 水神 shuǐ shén river God
- 河水 hé shuǐ river water
- 水族 Shuǐ zú Shui ethnic group of Guangxi
- 水管 shuǐ guǎn water pipe
- 胶水 jiāo shuǐ glue
- 洪水 hóng shuǐ deluge; flood
- 水桶 shuǐ tǒng bucket
- 渭水 Wèi Shuǐ Wei River in Shaanxi, through the Guanzhong Plain 關中平原|关中平原[Guan1 zhong1 Ping2 yuan2]
- 水缸 shuǐ gāng water jar
- 山水画 shān shuǐ huà landscape painting
- 排水沟 pái shuǐ gōu gutter
水 in our stories
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医生说他不用吃药，这两天多喝热水，别吃冷的东西。
yīshēng shuō tā búyòng chī yào zhè liǎng tiān duō hē rè shuǐ bié chī lěng de dōngxi
The doctor says he doesn't need medicine: for the next two days he should drink plenty of hot water and not eat anything cold.
From the story Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2
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锅里的水开了，她们下饺子。
guō lǐ de shuǐ kāi le tāmen xià jiǎozi
The water in the pot boils, and they put the dumplings in.
From the story Making dumplings HSK 2
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河里的水很少，菜也快死了。
hé lǐ de shuǐ hěn shǎo cài yě kuài sǐ le
There was very little water in the river, and the vegetables were nearly dead.
From the story The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
Where you learn it
水 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 水
- Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2
- Making dumplings HSK 2
- The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
- The little carp's decision HSK 3
- Dragon boats in Hamburg HSK 5
- Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).