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饮用水

yǐn yòng shuǐ

HSK 3.0 level 6 3-character word Traditional 飲用水

饮用水 (yǐn yòng shuǐ) means "drinking water; potable water". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 饮用水 means

1. drinking water; potable water

The characters in 饮用水

• 饮yǐnto drink
• 用yòngto use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need…
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水

Example sentences

• 饮用水中的酸雨影响人类的健康。
  Yǐnyòngshuǐ zhōng de suānyǔ yǐngxiǎng rénlèi de jiànkāng.
  Acid rain in drinking water affects human health.

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