山水
shān shuǐ
Pinyin

Definition

山水
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shān shuǐ
  1. water from a mountain
  2. mountains and rivers
  3. scenery
  4. landscape
山水
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Shān shuǐ
  1. Sansui, Japanese company

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

Táng shān
  1. 1 Tangshan prefecture level city in Hebei
Shān
  1. 1 surname Shan
Shān dōng
  1. 1 Shandong, province in northeast China, short name 魯|鲁[Lǔ], capital Jinan 濟南|济南[Jǐ nán]
Shuǐ
  1. 1 surname Shui
shuǐ píng
  1. 1 level (of achievement etc)
  2. 2 standard
  3. 3 horizontal

Idioms (20)

一山不容二虎
yī shān bù róng èr hǔ
  1. 1 lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us
  3. 3 (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive
一清如水
yī qīng rú shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. as clear as water (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible
一碗水端平
yī wǎn shuǐ duān píng
  1. 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be impartial
一点水一个泡
yī diǎn shuǐ yī gè pào
  1. 1 honest and trustworthy (idiom)
三个和尚没水喝
sān gè hé shang méi shuǐ hē
  1. 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
  3. 3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)

Sample Sentences

诶,没错没错,就是侯导的《聂隐娘》,里面的景色美极了,像山水画一样。
ēi ,méicuò méicuò ,jiùshì Hòu dǎo de 《Niè yǐnniáng 》,lǐmiàn de jǐngsè měi jí le ,xiàng shānshuǐ huà yīyàng 。
Eh, that's right, it was Hou's The Assassin. The scenery of the film was extremely pretty, just like a ink landscape drawing.
那主要学哪方面的,山水、人物、水墨还是鸟兽?
nà zhǔyào xué nǎ fāngmiàn de ,shānshuǐ 、rénwù 、shuǐmò háishì niǎoshòu ?
Well, which aspects will your studies focus on? Landscapes, people, ink and wash, or animals?
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那和国内其他地方的山山水水应该差不多的。
nà hé guónèi qítā dìfang de shānshānshuǐshuǐ yīnggāi chàbuduō de 。
Then compared to the other beautiful places in China it's probably more or less the same.
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