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洪水

hóng shuǐ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

洪水 (hóng shuǐ) means "deluge; flood". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 洪水 means

1. deluge; flood

The characters in 洪水

• 洪hóngflood; big; great
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 人们因为洪水被疏散了。
  Rénmen yīnwèi hóngshuǐ bèi shūsàn le.
  People were evacuated because of the flood.
• 洪水造成了很大的损害。
  Hóngshuǐ zàochéng le hěn dà de sǔnhài.
  The flood caused a lot of damage.
• 很多家园被洪水冲走了。
  Hěn duō jiāyuán bèi hóngshuǐ chōngzǒu le.
  Many homes were washed away by the flood.
• 许多房屋被洪水冲走了。
  Xǔduō fángwū bèi hóngshuǐ chōngzǒu le.
  A lot of houses were washed away by the flood.
• 山坡让滔滔的洪水往西流
  Shānpō ràng tāotāo de hóngshuǐ wǎng xī liú
  The hillside had torrential flooding from the west.
• 洪水涌到了窗户的高度。
  The flood water reached the level of the windows.

Words starting with 洪水

• 洪水期hóng shuǐ qīflood season
• 洪水猛兽hóng shuǐ měng shòulit. severe floods and fierce beasts (idiom); fig. great scourges…
• 洪水滔滔hóng shuǐ tāo tāo(idiom) to have flooding over a vast area

Where 洪水 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · hóng–hū (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 hóng shuǐ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.