开水

开水 kāishuǐ in a sentence

Boiled water (boiling water)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 3 sentences

开水 (kāishuǐ) means Boiled water (boiling water). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

请喝点 开水 。

Qǐng hē diǎn kāishuǐ.

Please drink some boiled water.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 开水

用 开水 泡茶最好。

Yòng kāishuǐ pào chá zuì hǎo.

It is best to make tea with boiling water.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 开水

他拧 开水 龙头洗了洗手。

Tā nǐng kāi shuǐlóngtóu xǐ le xǐ shǒu.

He turned on the tap and washed his hands.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 水龙头

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How is 开水 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 开水 (kāishuǐ, "Boiled water (boiling water)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 开水 an HSK word?

Yes — 开水 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 开水?

The dictionary page for 开水 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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