水
shuǐ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Water, the liquid of rain, rivers and the tap. 喝水 is 'to drink water'; 开水 is boiled water, 热水 hot water, 冷水 cold water. A glass of water is 一杯水, with the measure word 杯 'cup'. The same character is in 水果 'fruit'.
Nước, chất lỏng để uống, tắm giặt. 喝水 là uống nước; 开水 là nước đun sôi, 热水 là nước nóng, 冷水 là nước lạnh. Một cốc nước là 一杯水, với lượng từ 杯 (cốc, ly). Chữ này còn có trong 水果 (hoa quả, trái cây).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “水” mean?
Water, the liquid of rain, rivers and the tap. 喝水 is 'to drink water'; 开水 is boiled water, 热水 hot water, 冷水 cold water. A glass of water is 一杯水, with the measure word 杯 'cup'. The same character is in 水果 'fruit'.
Is “水” formal or informal?
水 is generally neutral.