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溺水

nì shuǐ

2-character word

What 溺水 means

1. to drown

The characters in 溺水

• 溺nìto drown; to indulge; addicted to
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 他溺水而亡。
  He drowned.
• 她差点就溺水了。
  She came near to drowning.
• 有几个船员溺水而亡。
  Some of the crew were drowned.
• 他救了一个溺水的男孩。
  Tā jiù le yī gè nìshuǐ de nánhái.
  He rescued a boy from drowning.
• 那个溺水的男人抓紧了绳子。
  Nàge nìshuǐ de nánrén zhuājǐn le shéngzi.
  The drowning man grasped at the rope.
• 那个高个少年救了溺水儿童。
  That tall boy saved the drowning child.

Sounds the same

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

• 逆水against the current; upstream