HSK 6 · Nature

洪水 hóngshuǐ “flood” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 洪水 means

  1. flood
  2. deluge

How to say 洪水

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale洪hóng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale水shuǐ3rd tone, dipping

洪水 in a sentence

  1. 许多房屋被洪水冲走了。

    Xǔduō fángwū bèi hóngshuǐ chōngzǒu le.

    Many houses were washed away by the flood.

    Sentence #334208 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 人们因为洪水被疏散了。

    Rénmen yīnwèi hóngshuǐ bèi shūsàn le.

    People were evacuated because of the flood.

    Sentence #829719 from Tatoeba

  3. 洪水造成了很大的损害。

    Hóngshuǐ zàochéng le hěn dà de sǔnhài.

    The flood caused a lot of damage.

    Sentence #907508 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 洪水 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 洪 (hóng) with each of its parts in a different colour
洪hóngflood
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐ
  • 共all · gòng
The character 水 (shuǐ) drawn as one shape
水shuǐwater

水 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from flowing water.

How to write 洪水

洪 9 strokes · 水 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

洪水 (hóngshuǐ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 洪水 (hóngshuǐ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 洪水

Words with 水

水shuǐ · water水果shuǐguǒ · fruit水平shuǐpíng · level矿泉水kuàngquánshuǐ · mineral water开水kāishuǐ · boiled water胶水jiāoshuǐ · glue潜水qiánshuǐ · to dive薪水xīnshui · salary淡水dànshuǐ · fresh water水利shuǐlì · water conservancy

More words: Nature & Environment

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FAQs

洪水 (hóngshuǐ) means “flood” or “deluge”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hóngshuǐ: hóng with a 2nd tone, then shuǐ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 洪水 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hongshui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 洪水 from the suggestions. Typing hongshui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
洪水 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.