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Stroke order
水 is written in 4 strokes.
- 水
Senses
- water
- (after a name) ... River
- (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy
- (bound form) additional cost; extra income
- classifier for washings of a garment
Example sentences
- 我想喝水。Wǒ xiǎng hē shuǐ.I want to drink water.
- 杯子里没有水。Bēizi lǐ méiyǒu shuǐ.There is no water in the cup.
Related words
水 is pronounced shuǐ and means “agua”. You will meet it in HSK 1, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 水 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.