水果
shuǐ guǒ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Fruit in general, as food: apples, oranges, bananas and so on. It is the everyday word for the fruit you buy and eat: 吃水果 'eat fruit', 水果店 'a fruit shop'. Each kind has its own name, such as 苹果 'apple'.
Hoa quả, trái cây nói chung, như táo, cam, chuối. Đây là từ thường ngày cho hoa quả mua về ăn: 吃水果 (ăn hoa quả), 水果店 (cửa hàng hoa quả). Mỗi loại có tên riêng, như 苹果 (táo).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (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 “水果” mean?
Fruit in general, as food: apples, oranges, bananas and so on. It is the everyday word for the fruit you buy and eat: 吃水果 'eat fruit', 水果店 'a fruit shop'. Each kind has its own name, such as 苹果 'apple'. Literally: water fruit
Is “水果” formal or informal?
水果 is generally neutral.