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开水

kāi shuǐ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 開水

开水 (kāi shuǐ) means "boiled water". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 开水 means

1. boiled water
2. boiling water

The characters in 开水

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Words starting with 开水

• 开水壶kāi shuǐ húkettle

Words containing 开水

• 白开水bái kāi shuǐplain boiled water
• 死猪不怕开水烫sǐ zhū bù pà kāi shuǐ tàng(lit.) a dead pig doesn't fear scalding water (saying)…

Where 开水 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jūn–kǎ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kāi shuǐ correctly.
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