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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
滴水
water drop
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
water drop
02
dripping water
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 滴水 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 滴水 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Drop by drop, the water can conglomerate into a lake.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 滴水.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 滴水.
Directly before
- 一滴滴水1
- 在滴水1
Directly after
- 滴水能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 滴水
What does 滴水 mean in Chinese?
滴水 (dīshuǐ) means water drop.
How do you pronounce 滴水?
滴水 is pronounced dīshuǐ.
Is 滴水 an HSK word?
滴水 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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