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水汽

shuǐ qì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

水汽 (shuǐ qì) means "water vapor; steam; moisture". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 水汽 means

1. water vapor
2. steam
3. moisture

The characters in 水汽

• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 汽qìsteam; vapor

Example sentences

• 云是天空中的水汽团。
  A cloud is a mass of vapor in the sky.
• 当水被加热时，水汽蒸发。
  Dāng shuǐ bèi jiārè shí, shuǐqì zhēngfā.
  Water evaporates when it is heated.

Sounds the same

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

• 水气water vapor; steam

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shuǐ qì correctly.
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