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水利

shuǐ lì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

水利 (shuǐ lì) means "water conservancy; irrigation works". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 水利 means

1. water conservancy
2. irrigation works

The characters in 水利

• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 利lìsharp; favorable; advantage

Words starting with 水利

• 水利工程shuǐ lì gōng chénghydraulic engineering
• 水利家shuǐ lì jiāwater manager; hydraulic engineer
• 水利部Shuǐ lì bùMinistry of Water Resources (PRC)

Words containing 水利

• 修水利xiū shuǐ lìto build or repair water conservancy infrastructure (e.g. canals, reservoirs etc)

Sounds the same

Read shuǐ lì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 水力hydraulic power
• 水栗see 荸荠

Where 水利 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shuàn–sī (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 shuǐ lì correctly.
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