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胶水

jiāo shuǐ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 膠水

胶水 (jiāo shuǐ) means "glue". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 胶水 means

1. glue

The characters in 胶水

• 胶jiāoto glue; glue; gum
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 我需要胶水。
  Wǒ xūyào jiāoshuǐ.
  I need glue.
• 一些家具是用胶水黏在一起。
  Yīxiē jiājù shì yòng jiāoshuǐ nián zàiyīqǐ.
  Some furniture is put together with glue.

Sounds the same

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

• 浇水to water (plants etc)

Where 胶水 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Containers & Everyday Objects (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiāo shuǐ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.