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潜水

qián shuǐ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 潛水

潜水 (qián shuǐ) means "to dive; to go under water; (in an online forum) to lurk". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 潜水 means

1. to dive
2. to go under water
3. (in an online forum) to lurk

The characters in 潜水

• 潜qiánhidden; secret; latent
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 你能潜水吗？
  Nǐ néng qiánshuǐ ma?
  Can you swim underwater?
• 汤姆穿着潜水服。
  Tom is wearing a wetsuit.
• 你曾试过用水肺潜水吗？
  Nǐ céng shì guo yòng shuǐfèi qiánshuǐ ma?
  Have you ever tried scuba diving?

Words starting with 潜水

• 潜水艇qián shuǐ tǐnga submarine
• 潜水员qián shuǐ yuándiver; frogman
• 潜水器qián shuǐ qìsubmersible
• 潜水服qián shuǐ fúdiving suit; wetsuit
• 潜水者qián shuǐ zhě(underwater) diver
• 潜水衣qián shuǐ yīdiving suit
• 潜水夫病qián shuǐ fū bìngbends
• 潜水夫症qián shuǐ fū zhèngbends
• 潜水刀qián shuǐ dāodive knife

Words containing 潜水

• 技术潜水jì shù qián shuǐtechnical diving
• 自由潜水zì yóu qián shuǐfreediving; skin diving

Where 潜水 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qiǎng–qiáo (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 qián shuǐ correctly.
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