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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

海水

hǎishuǐ

seawater

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

seawater

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 海水 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 海水 appears in 10 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你的歌声清澈如太平洋的海水。nǐ de gē shēng qīng chè rú tài píng yáng de hǎi shuǐ。

You sing with a voice as clear as the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

你不能喝海水,因为它太咸了。nǐ bù néng hē hǎi shuǐ, yīn wèi tā tài xián le。

You can't drink seawater because it is too salty.

你的歌声像太平洋的海水一样清澈。nǐ de gē shēng xiàng tài píng yáng de hǎi shuǐ yī yàng qīng chè。

You sing with a voice as clear as the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 海水.

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

Directly before

  • 把海水2
  • 的海水2
  • 喝海水1
  • 因为海水1
  • 被海水1

Directly after

  • 海水净化1
  • 海水变成1
  • 海水变热1
  • 海水一样1
  • 海水吞噬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 海水

What does 海水 mean in Chinese?

海水 (hǎishuǐ) means seawater.

How do you pronounce 海水?

海水 is pronounced hǎishuǐ.

Is 海水 an HSK word?

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

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