He poured cold water over himself.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
冷水
cold water
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
cold water
02
unboiled water
03
fig. not yet ready (of plans)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 冷水 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 冷水 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A glass of cold water is very refreshing in hot weather.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 冷水.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 冷水.
Directly before
- 一盆冷水1
- 一杯冷水1
Directly after
- 冷水在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 冷水
What does 冷水 mean in Chinese?
冷水 (lěngshuǐ) means cold water.
How do you pronounce 冷水?
冷水 is pronounced lěngshuǐ.
Is 冷水 an HSK word?
冷水 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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