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跳水

tiào shuǐ

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

跳水 (tiào shuǐ) means "to dive (into water); (sports) diving; to commit suicide by jumping into water". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 跳水 means

1. to dive (into water)
2. sportsdiving
3. to commit suicide by jumping into water
4. (fig.) (of stock prices etc) to fall dramatically

The characters in 跳水

• 跳tiàoto jump; to hop; to skip over
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 肯站在跳水台上
  Ken stands on the diving board.

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