The drains are blocked up.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
下水道
sewer
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
sewer
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 下水道 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 下水道 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The sewer ran under the road.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 下水道.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 下水道.
Directly before
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
Directly after
- 下水道堵1
- 下水道位1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 下水道
What does 下水道 mean in Chinese?
下水道 (xiàshuǐdào) means sewer.
How do you pronounce 下水道?
下水道 is pronounced xiàshuǐdào.
Is 下水道 an HSK word?
下水道 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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