They water the fruit trees.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
浇水
to water (plants etc)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to water (plants etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 浇水 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 浇水 appears in 16 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I am watering the flowers.
The flowers in the garden need to be watered.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 浇水.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 浇水.
Directly before
- 花浇水4
- 花园浇水3
- 花要浇水1
- 花园里浇水1
- 植物浇水1
Directly after
- 浇水了5
- 浇水的2
- 浇水在1
- 浇水施肥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 浇水
What does 浇水 mean in Chinese?
浇水 (jiāoshuǐ) means to water (plants etc).
How do you pronounce 浇水?
浇水 is pronounced jiāoshuǐ.
Is 浇水 an HSK word?
浇水 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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