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饮水

yǐn shuǐ

2-character word Traditional 飲水

What 饮水 means

1. to drink water
2. drinking water

Other readings

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

• yìn shuǐto give water (to animals)

The characters in 饮水

• 饮yǐnto drink
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 你只能喝从饮水器来的水。
  You can only drink water from the water dispenser.

Words starting with 饮水

• 饮水器yǐn shuǐ qìwater dispenser
• 饮水机yǐn shuǐ jīwater dispenser; water cooler; drinking fountain
• 饮水思源yǐn shuǐ sī yuánlit. when you drink water, think of its source (idiom)…

Words containing 饮水

• 如人饮水，冷暖自知rú rén yǐn shuǐ , lěng nuǎn zì zhīthe person who drinks it knows best whether the water is hot or cold (Zen proverb)…

Sounds the same

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

• 引水to pilot a ship; to channel water; to draw water (for irrigation)