Put some salt into the boiling water.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
滚水
boiling water
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
boiling water
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 滚水 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 滚水 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Cook the peeled and chopped potatoes for 20 minutes in boiling water.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 滚水.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 滚水.
Directly before
- 到滚水1
- 放在滚水1
Directly after
- 滚水里2
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 滚水
What does 滚水 mean in Chinese?
滚水 (gǔnshuǐ) means boiling water.
How do you pronounce 滚水?
滚水 is pronounced gǔnshuǐ.
Is 滚水 an HSK word?
滚水 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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