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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
灌水
to irrigate
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to irrigate
02
to pour water into
03
to inject water into meat to increase its weight (plumping)
04
to cook the books
05
to post low-value messages (small talk etc) on Internet forums
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 灌水 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 灌水 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 灌水.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 灌水.
Directly before
- 冲浪灌水1
- 上灌水1
Directly after
- 灌水打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 灌水
What does 灌水 mean in Chinese?
灌水 (guànshuǐ) means to irrigate.
How do you pronounce 灌水?
灌水 is pronounced guànshuǐ.
Is 灌水 an HSK word?
灌水 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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