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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

凉水

liángshuǐ

cool water

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

cool water

02

unboiled water

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 凉水 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 凉水 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

汤姆给自己浇凉水以清醒过来。tāng mǔ gěi zì jǐ jiāo liáng shuǐ yǐ qīng xǐng guò lái。

Tom poured cold water over himself to wake himself up.

我生病了,喝不了凉水。wǒ shēng bìng le, hē bù liǎo liáng shuǐ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

灶王爷本姓张,一碗凉水三炷香。zào wáng yé běn xìng zhāng, yī wǎn liáng shuǐ sān zhù xiāng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 凉水.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 凉水.

Directly before

  • 浇凉水1
  • 不了凉水1
  • 一碗凉水1

Directly after

  • 凉水以1
  • 凉水三1
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 凉水

What does 凉水 mean in Chinese?

凉水 (liángshuǐ) means cool water.

How do you pronounce 凉水?

凉水 is pronounced liángshuǐ.

Is 凉水 an HSK word?

凉水 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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