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薪水

xīn shuǐ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

薪水 (xīn shuǐ) means "salary". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 薪水 means

1. salary
2. wage

The characters in 薪水

• 薪xīn(literary) firewood; fuel; (bound form) salary
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 他的薪水高。
  His salary is high.
• 昨天我收到了薪水。
  I received my salary yesterday.
• 她抱怨我的薪水很低。
  She complained that my salary was low.
• 以他的薪水不会很富裕。
  Yǐ tā de xīnshuǐ bù huì hěn fùyù.
  He can't be very wealthy, judging from his salary.
• 他赚的薪水是我的两倍。
  He earns twice as much as me.
• 他拿的薪水是我的一倍。
  He earns twice as much as me.

Where 薪水 is taught

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