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.
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