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雨水

yǔ shuǐ

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

雨水 (Yǔ shuǐ) means "Yushui or Rain Water, 2nd of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 19th February-5th March; rainwater; rainfall; rain". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 雨水 means

1. rainwater; rainfall; rain

Other readings

雨水 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Yǔ shuǐYushui or Rain Water, 2nd of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 19th February-5th March

The characters in 雨水

• 雨yǔrain
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 雨水是干净的。
  Yǔshuǐ shì gānjìng de.
  Rainwater is clean.
• 农作物需要雨水。
  Nóngzuòwù xūyào Yǔshuǐ.
  The crops need rain.
• 土壤被雨水冲走了。
  Tǔrǎng bèi Yǔshuǐ chōngzǒu le.
  The rain washed away the soil.
• 屋檐上正滴下雨水。
  Wūyán shàng zhèng dīxià Yǔshuǐ.
  The eaves are dripping.

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