水位
shuǐ wèi
Pinyin

Definition

水位
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shuǐ wèi
  1. water level

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

wèi
  1. 1 position
  2. 2 location
  3. 3 place
  4. 4 seat
  5. 5 classifier for people (honorific)
  6. 6 classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
  7. 7 (physics) potential
wèi zhi
  1. 1 position
  2. 2 place
  3. 3 seat
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
gè wèi
  1. 1 everybody
  2. 2 all (guests, colleagues etc)
  3. 3 all of you
dān wèi
  1. 1 unit (of measure)
  2. 2 unit (group of people as a whole)
  3. 3 work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform)
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
Shuǐ
  1. 1 surname Shui

Idioms (20)

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.)
不显山不露水
bù xiǎn shān bù lù shuǐ
  1. 1 lit. to not show the mountain and to not reveal the water (idiom); fig. to hide the key facts

Sample Sentences

只是,这次水位极高,最高达到一百五十六厘米。
zhǐshì ,zhè cì shuǐwèi jí gāo ,zuì gāo dádào yībǎi wǔshí liù límǐ 。
Except that this time the water level was extremely high, the highest was 156cm.
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意大利水城威尼斯受狂风暴雨影响,水位二十九日涨至近十年来最高位,城市四分之三沦为泽国。
Yìdàlì Shuǐchéng Wēinísī shòu kuángfēngbàoyǔ yǐngxiǎng ,shuǐwèi èrshíjiǔrì zhǎng zhì jìn shí nián lái zuì gāo wèi ,chéngshì sìfēnzhīsan lúnwéi zéguó 。
On the 29th, heavy winds and downpours caused the water level around Venice to rise to its highest level in almost a decade. More than three quarters of the city was inundated.
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按照他的说法,威尼斯平均一年有四次水位超过一百零九厘米。
ànzhào tā de shuōfǎ ,Wēinísī píngjūn yī nián yǒu sì cì shuǐwèi chāoguò yìbǎilíngjiǔ límǐ 。
According to him, the water level in Venice exceeds 109cm an average of 4 times a year.
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