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西瓜

xī guā

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Measure word 颗

西瓜 (xī guā) means "watermelon". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 西瓜 means

1. watermelon

The characters in 西瓜

• 西xīwest
• 瓜guāmelon; gourd; squash; (slang) a piece of gossip

Example sentences

• 我在吃西瓜。
  I am eating a watermelon.
• 这是一种西瓜。
  This is a kind of watermelon.
• 我吃一片西瓜。
  I am eating a slice of watermelon.
• 我很喜欢吃西瓜。
  I like to eat watermelon.
• 咱们吃个西瓜吧！
  Let's eat a watermelon!
• 我在吃一个西瓜。
  I am eating a watermelon.

Words starting with 西瓜

• 西瓜虫xī guā chóngpill bug; roly-poly

Words containing 西瓜

• 捡了芝麻丢了西瓜jiǎn le zhī ma diū le xī guāto let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom)

Where 西瓜 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Food and Drink (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xī guā correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.