吃水

chīshuǐ
  1. drinking water
  2. to obtain water (for daily needs)
  3. to absorb water
  4. draft (of ship)

CEDICT

  1. (dialect) drinking water; potable water
  2. (nautical) draft; depth of water drawn by a vessel
  3. draft; depth of water drawn by a vessel
  4. drinking water; potable water
  5. to absorb water
  6. to get domestic water

Wiktionary

  1. 船身入水的深度。指船的載重量。有龍骨吃水及模吃水二種。
  2. 吸收水分。

重編國語辭典

Examples

吃水果。

Eat fruit.

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你得吃水果。

You must eat fruits.

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他很少吃水果。

He seldom eats fruits.

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請隨意吃水果。

Please help yourself to the fruit.

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我喜歡吃水果。

I like eating fruit.

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你喜歡吃水果嗎？

Do you like to eat fruit?

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我每天都吃水果。

I eat fruit every day.

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我吃水果、喝水。

I eat fruit and drink water.

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你想吃水果馅饼吗？

You want to eat fruit pies?

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我早饭主要吃水果。

I mostly have fruit for breakfast.

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我在吃水果，因为我饿。

I'm eating fruits because I'm hungry.

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Entry Composition

=1 吃 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=1 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī
2 水 shuǐ
  1. water
  2. (after a name) ... River
  3. to swim (used mostly in 會水 huìshuǐ and 水性 shuǐxìng)
  4. (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy
  5. (bound form) additional cost; extra income
  6. classifier for washings of a garment

Containing this entry

吃水不忘挖井人 chīshuǐbùwàngwājǐngrén see 吃水不忘掘井人 chīshuǐbùwàngjuéjǐngrén
吃水不忘掘井人 chīshuǐbùwàngjuéjǐngrén Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom)
靠山吃山，靠水吃水 kàoshānchīshān,kàoshuǐchīshuǐ
  1. lit. the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea (idiom)
  2. fig. to make the best use of local resources
  3. to exploit one's position to advance oneself
  4. to find one's niche
  5. to live off the land
吃水線 chīshuǐxiàn

Related entries

食水 shíshuǐ (Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong) drinking water
我們不止需要足夠的食水，還需要乾淨的食水。

We need not only adequate water but clean water.

Source: Tatoeba

清水 qīngshuǐ
  1. fresh water
  2. drinking water
  3. clear water
飲水 yǐnshuǐ
  1. to drink water
  2. drinking water
取水 qǔshuǐ
  1. water intake
  2. to obtain water (from a well etc)
水井是可以取水的地方。

A well is a place where you can get water.

Source: Tatoeba

穿堂風 chuāntángfēng draft
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