水
shuǐ HSK1

water

水 shuǐ
water noun
water; a liquid, juice, or lotion

一个是水，一个是火。

yī​ge shì shuǐ, yī​ge shì huǒ.

One is water, the other is fire.

extra income noun
(bound form) additional charges; extra income or kickbacks
river noun
(bound form) a river; waterways or water routes
flood noun
flood; water disaster
Water nounproper noun
one of the five elements (五行 wǔ​xíng)
swimming nounverb
(bound form) related to swimming, as in 会水 huì​shuǐ
[classifier]
classifier for the number of times a garment has been washed
shoddy
(colloquial) lacking in substance; of poor quality; (of fruit) watery and not crisp
Shui
the Shui ethnic group of Guizhou and Guangxi
Mercury
short for 水星 shuǐ​xīng (the planet Mercury)
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Referenced by

Frequency
Character
Written text
202nd most common 1028.1 per million
Movie subtitles
334th most common 465.3 per million appears in 81% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
226.0 per million appears in 50% of films
Written text
433.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+6C34

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)