A well is a place where you can get water.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
水井
(water) well
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(water) well
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 水井 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 水井 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The implication was that where there was a well, there were residents.
The term "hutong", originally meaning "water well", came from the Mongolian language about 700 years ago.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 水井.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 水井.
Directly before
- 有水井1
Directly after
- 水井是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 水井
What does 水井 mean in Chinese?
水井 (shuǐjǐng) means (water) well.
How do you pronounce 水井?
水井 is pronounced shuǐjǐng.
Is 水井 an HSK word?
水井 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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