HSK 4 · Food

矿泉水 kuàngquánshuǐ “mineral water” in Chinese

Traditional 礦泉水

What 矿泉水 means

  1. mineral water

Measure word 瓶 píng or 杯 bēi · 一瓶矿泉水 yì píng kuàngquánshuǐ

How to say 矿泉水

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale矿kuàng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale泉quán2nd 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

矿泉水 in a sentence

  1. 我喜欢喝天然的矿泉水。

    Wǒ xǐhuan hē tiānrán de kuàngquánshuǐ.

    I like drinking natural mineral water.

    Sentence #6161733 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 矿泉水 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 矿 (kuàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
矿kuàngmineral deposit; ore deposit
  • 石stone · shíMeaning part
  • 广shelter · guǎngSound part

石 hints at the meaning (stone); 广 (guǎng) hints at the sound. Compare it with kuàng.

The character 泉 (quán) with each of its parts in a different colour
泉quánspring
  • 白white · bái
  • 水water · shuǐ
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 矿泉水

矿 8 strokes · 泉 9 strokes · 水 4 strokes

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

Words related to 矿泉水

Words with 矿

矿产kuàngchǎn · mineral resources

Words with 泉

源泉yuánquán · source

Words with 水

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

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FAQs

矿泉水 (kuàngquánshuǐ) means “mineral water”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it kuàngquánshuǐ: kuàng with a 4th tone, then quán 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.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 矿泉水 is written 礦泉水. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 瓶 (píng) or 杯 (bēi). For example, one mineral water is 一瓶矿泉水 (yì píng kuàngquánshuǐ).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kuangquanshui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 矿泉水 from the suggestions. Typing kuangquanshui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
矿泉水 is an HSK 4 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.