We are boiling water.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
烧水
to heat water
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to heat water
02
to boil water
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 烧水 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 烧水 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
They boil water for tea.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 烧水.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 烧水.
Directly before
- 他们烧水1
- 在烧水1
Directly after
- 烧水想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 烧水
What does 烧水 mean in Chinese?
烧水 (shāoshuǐ) means to heat water.
How do you pronounce 烧水?
烧水 is pronounced shāoshuǐ.
Is 烧水 an HSK word?
烧水 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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