The rivers were flooded by the heavy rain.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
河水
river water
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
river water
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 河水 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 河水 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The typhoon caused the river to flood.
Tom fell into the ice-cold water of the river.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 河水.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 河水.
Directly before
- 使河水1
- 和河水1
- 拉巴河水1
- 了河水1
- 的河水1
Directly after
- 河水泛滥1
- 河水通常1
- 河水又1
- 河水氾1
- 河水不好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 河水
What does 河水 mean in Chinese?
河水 (héshuǐ) means river water.
How do you pronounce 河水?
河水 is pronounced héshuǐ.
Is 河水 an HSK word?
河水 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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