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水泥

shuǐ ní

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Measure word 袋

水泥 (shuǐ ní) means "cement". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 水泥 means

1. cement

The characters in 水泥

• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 泥nímud; clay; paste

Example sentences

• 别躺在水泥地上。
  Don't lie on the cement floor.
• 别坐在水泥地上。
  Don't sit on the cement floor.
• 水泥会在数个小时内凝固。
  Shuǐní huì zài shù gè xiǎoshí nèi nínggù.
  The cement will set in a couple of hours.
• 我们往下看，是一片水泥丛林。
  Looking down, we saw a concrete jungle.

Words starting with 水泥

• 水泥地shuǐ ní dìconcrete-paved surface; concrete floor

Words containing 水泥

• 白水泥bái shuǐ níwhite cement
• 骨水泥gǔ shuǐ níbone cement; orthopedic cement
• 钢骨水泥gāng gǔ shuǐ níreinforced concrete
• 硅酸盐水泥guī suān yán shuǐ níPortland cement
• 钢筋水泥gāng jīn shuǐ níreinforced concrete

Where 水泥 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 ní correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.