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。指船的载重量。有龙骨吃水及模吃水二种。
  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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请随意吃水果。

Please help yourself to the fruit.

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我喜欢吃水果。

I like eating fruit.

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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 会水 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
吃水线 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.

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清水 qīngshuǐ
  1. fresh water
  2. drinking water
  3. clear water
饮水 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.

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穿堂风 chuāntángfēng draft
草案 cǎoàn draft (legislation, proposal etc)
草稿 cǎogǎo
  1. draft
  2. outline
  3. sketch
稿 gǎo
  1. manuscript
  2. draft
  3. stalk of grain
他比较了复印稿和原件。

He compared the copy with the original.

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空气流 kōngqìliú
  1. flow of air
  2. draft
选秀 xuǎnxiù
  1. to select talented individuals
  2. (sports) draft
散装 sǎnzhuāng
  1. loose goods
  2. goods sold open
  3. draft (of beer, as opposed to bottled)
文稿 wéngǎo
  1. manuscript
  2. article (in newspaper)
  3. draft
气流 qìliú
  1. stream of air
  2. airflow
  3. slipstream
  4. draft
  5. breath
  6. turbulence (of aircraft)
草 cǎo
  1. grass
  2. straw
  3. manuscript
  4. draft (of a document)
  5. careless
  6. rough

classifiers: 棵, 撮, 株, 根

这种动物以草为食。

These animals feed on grass.

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