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沸水

fèi shuǐ

2-character word

What 沸水 means

1. boiling water

The characters in 沸水

• 沸fèito boil
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 把蛋放入沸水中。
  Bǎ dàn fàng rù fèishuǐ zhōng.
  Put the eggs into the boiling water.
• 我给沸水烫伤了。
  Wǒ gěi fèishuǐ tàngshāng le.
  I burned myself with boiling water.
• 沸水蒸发成气体。
  Fèishuǐ zhēngfā chéng qìtǐ.
  Boiling water evaporates and turns into a gas.

Sounds the same

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

• 废水waste water; drain water; effluent