水位
shuǐ wèi
Pinyin
Definition
水位
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- water level
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 position
- 2 location
- 3 place
- 4 seat
- 5 classifier for people (honorific)
- 6 classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
- 7 (physics) potential
- 1 everybody
- 2 all (guests, colleagues etc)
- 3 all of you
- 1 unit (of measure)
- 2 unit (group of people as a whole)
- 3 work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform)
- 4 classifier: 个 gè
- 1 surname Shui
Idioms (20)
一清如水
- 1 lit. as clear as water (idiom)
- 2 fig. (of officials etc) honest and incorruptible
一碗水端平
- 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be impartial
一点水一个泡
- 1 honest and trustworthy (idiom)
三个和尚没水喝
- 1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)
- 2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business
- 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
- 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。
Except that this time the water level was extremely high, the highest was 156cm.
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。
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.
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。
According to him, the water level in Venice exceeds 109cm an average of 4 times a year.