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水枪

shuǐqiāng

water pistol (toy)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

water pistol (toy)

02

water gun

03

sprinkler

04

water cannon

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 水枪 actually appears in real sentences.

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

如果你想要那把水枪,你必须自己存钱买。我没有办法一直买玩具给你。钱不会从我背上长出来。rú guǒ nǐ xiǎng yào nà bǎ shuǐ qiāng, nǐ bì xū zì jǐ cún qián mǎi。 wǒ méi yǒu bàn fǎ yì zhí mǎi wán jù gěi nǐ。 qián bú huì cóng wǒ bèi shàng zhǎng chū lái。

If you want that water pistol you'll just have to save money and buy it yourself. I can't constantly buy toys for you. I'm not made of money.

我家里能算得上武器的就只有几把水枪了。wǒ jiā lǐ néng suàn dé shàng wǔ qì de jiù zhǐ yǒu jǐ bǎ shuǐ qiāng le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 水枪.

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

Directly before

  • 把水枪1
  • 几把水枪1

Directly after

  • 水枪了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 水枪

What does 水枪 mean in Chinese?

水枪 (shuǐqiāng) means water pistol (toy).

How do you pronounce 水枪?

水枪 is pronounced shuǐqiāng.

Is 水枪 an HSK word?

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

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