No published English translation for this sentence.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
下水
downstream
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
downstream
02
to go into the water
03
to put into water
04
to launch (a ship)
05
fig. to fall into bad ways
06
to lead astray
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 下水 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 下水 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 下水.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 下水.
Directly before
- 一艘船下水1
Directly after
- 下水了1
- 下水前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
What does 下水 mean in Chinese?
下水 (xiàshuǐ) means downstream.
How do you pronounce 下水?
下水 is pronounced xiàshuǐ. It also has the reading xiàshui.
Is 下水 an HSK word?
下水 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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