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水龙头

shuǐ lóng tóu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 水龍頭

水龙头 (shuǐ lóng tóu) means "faucet; tap". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 水龙头 means

1. faucet
2. tap

The characters in 水龙头

• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 龙lóngChinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor; dragon
• 头tóuhead; hair style; the top

Example sentences

• 水龙头在滴水。
  Shuǐlóngtóu zài dīshuǐ.
  The tap is running.
• 厨房里的水龙头在漏水。
  The tap in the kitchen is dripping.
• 他打开了浴缸里的水龙头。
  He has the water running in the bathtub.
• 我没能使用水龙头，因为它坏了。
  Wǒ méi néng shǐyòng shuǐlóngtóu, yīnwèi tā huàile.
  I did not use the tap because it was spoiled.

Where 水龙头 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 lóng tóu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.