HSK 6 · Nature

灌溉 guàngài “to irrigate” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 灌溉 means

  1. to irrigate
  2. irrigation

How to say 灌溉

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale灌guàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale溉gài4th tone, falling

灌溉 in a sentence

  1. 农民用河水灌溉农田。

    Nóngmín yòng héshuǐ guàngài nóngtián.

    Farmers use river water to irrigate their fields.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这里的灌溉系统很先进。

    Zhèlǐ de guàngài xìtǒng hěn xiānjìn.

    The irrigation system here is very advanced.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 灌溉 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 灌 (guàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
灌guànto irrigate
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 雚heron · guànSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 雚 (guàn) hints at the sound. Compare it with guàn.

The character 溉 (gài) with each of its parts in a different colour
溉gàito irrigate
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 既already · jìSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 既 (jì) hints at the sound. Compare it with gài.

How to write 灌溉

灌 20 strokes · 溉 12 strokes

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

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FAQs

灌溉 (guàngài) means “to irrigate” or “irrigation”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it guàngài: guàn with a 4th tone, then gài with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 灌溉 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type guangai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 灌溉 from the suggestions. Typing guangai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
灌溉 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.