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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
drinking water / to obtain water (for daily needs) / to absorb water / draft (of ship)
see 吃水不忘掘井人[]
Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom)
to draw water (from a well) / (coll.) to receive an IV drip
to have bitter digestive fluids rising to the mouth / fig. to complain bitterly / to pour out one's sufferings
a gentleman's friendship, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[])
watery
aquifer
absorbent
(coll.) to chat casually / to shoot the breeze (originally Cantonese)
daffodil
(coll.) to be out of luck
watering can / sprinkling can
a fountain
surface water
surface water
urbanization level (of a city or town)
erhua variant of 墨水[]
e-ink screen / e-paper display
inkstand
evil tricks
extra income
juicy
geoid
flood
lit. surging waters flooded the Dragon King temple (idiom) / fig. to fail to recognize a familiar person / a dispute between close people who fail to recognize each other
light cyan
(loanword) paint thinner
tonic water / quinine water
the person who drinks it knows best whether the water is hot or cold (Zen proverb) / self-awareness comes from within / to know best by personal experience
trap (plumbing) / U-bend
study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind
academic level
hairspray
dowsing
a small bridge over a flowing stream
tailwater / outflow (from mill or power plant)
outflow channel
(lit.) if the mountain won't move, the river will go around it (idiom) / (fig.) there's always a way forward, even when faced with obstacles
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