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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

水手

shuǐshǒu

mariner

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

mariner

02

sailor

03

seaman

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 水手 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 水手 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

他们杀死了三千多水手。tā men shā sǐ le sān qiān duō shuǐ shǒu。

No published English translation for this sentence.

平静的海面培养不出优秀的水手。píng jìng de hǎi miàn péi yǎng bù chū yōu xiù de shuǐ shǒu。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 水手.

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

Directly before

  • 三千多水手1
  • 的水手1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 水手

What does 水手 mean in Chinese?

水手 (shuǐshǒu) means mariner.

How do you pronounce 水手?

水手 is pronounced shuǐshǒu.

Is 水手 an HSK word?

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

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