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水shuǐwater

Theme
Food
Level
First words
Strokes
4
Syllable
shui

How 水 is written

Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.

水 — 4 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Examples

请给我一杯水。

Qǐng gěi wǒ yì bēi shuǐ.

Please give me a glass of water.

  • 请qǐngto ask
  • 给gěito give; for
  • 我wǒI
  • 一yīone
  • 杯bēicup; measure word for drinks
  • 水shuǐwater

我喝了两杯水。

Wǒ hē le liǎng bēi shuǐ.

I drank two glasses of water.

  • 我wǒI
  • 喝hēto drink
  • 了lecompleted action marker
  • 两liǎngtwo
  • 杯bēicup; measure word for drinks
  • 水shuǐwater

Not to be confused with

Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.

  • 永
  • 冰
  • 木