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HSK
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water

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

shui3 shuǐ

Meaning


Primary

water

Mnemonic


[shu-] Sherlock Holmes is in the [3] basement of the [-(e)i] beach house, investigating a unusually high 水 water bill. He confidently looks at a 水 water pipe on the ceiling above before hitting it open with his cane. A whole mafia of crabs falls out, revealing their 水 water bootlegging operations. They scurry away while 水 water spurts everywhere, flooding the basement.

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