HSK 5 · Objects

胶水 jiāoshuǐ “glue” in Chinese

Traditional 膠水

What 胶水 means

  1. glue

How to say 胶水

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale胶jiāo1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale水shuǐ3rd tone, dipping

胶水 in a sentence

  1. 我需要胶水。

    Wǒ xūyào jiāoshuǐ.

    I need glue.

    Sentence #5576802 from Tatoeba

How 胶水 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 胶 (jiāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
胶jiāoto glue
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròu
  • 交to connect · jiāo
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 胶水

胶 10 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.

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

Words related to 胶水

Words with 水

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FAQs

胶水 (jiāoshuǐ) means “glue”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jiāoshuǐ: jiāo with a 1st 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.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 胶水 is written 膠水. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiaoshui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 胶水 from the suggestions. Typing jiaoshui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
胶水 is an HSK 5 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.