Our village is not short of water.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
缺水
water shortage
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
water shortage
02
dehydration
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 缺水 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 缺水 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The flowers withered for want of water.
Many plants withered due to lack of water.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 缺水.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 缺水.
Directly before
- 由于缺水2
- 不缺水1
- 因缺水1
- 以免缺水1
Directly after
- 缺水而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 缺水
What does 缺水 mean in Chinese?
缺水 (quēshuǐ) means water shortage.
How do you pronounce 缺水?
缺水 is pronounced quēshuǐ.
Is 缺水 an HSK word?
缺水 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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