HSK 6 · Objects

墨水儿 mòshuǐr “ink” in Chinese

Traditional 墨水兒

What 墨水儿 means

  1. ink

How to say 墨水儿

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale墨mò4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale水shuǐ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own儿rneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

墨水儿 in a sentence

  1. 钢笔没墨水儿了。

    Gāngbǐ méi mòshuǐr le.

    The fountain pen has run out of ink.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 我不小心把墨水儿洒在了衣服上。

    Wǒ bù xiǎoxīn bǎ mòshuǐr sǎ zài le yīfu shàng.

    I accidentally spilt ink on my clothes.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 墨水儿 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 墨 (mò) with each of its parts in a different colour
墨mòink stick
  • 黑black · hēi
  • 土earth · tǔ
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.

The character 儿 (ér) with each of its parts in a different colour
儿rnon-syllabic diminutive suffix
  • 丿slash · piě
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

Memory aidSimplified from 兒, a child drawn with a big head. Only the legs 儿 are left today.

How to write 墨水儿

墨 15 strokes · 水 4 strokes · 儿 2 strokes

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

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

Words related to 墨水儿

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洪水hóngshuǐ · flood

Words with 儿

儿子érzi · son女儿nǚ'ér · daughter哪儿nǎr · where这儿zhèr · here那儿nàr · there一点儿yìdiǎnr · a little面条儿miàntiáor · noodles好玩儿hǎowánr · amusing有点儿yǒudiǎnr · slightly男孩儿nánháir · boy

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FAQs

墨水儿 (mòshuǐr) means “ink”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it mòshuǐr: mò with a 4th tone, then shuǐ with a 3rd tone, then r with a neutral 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, 墨水儿 is written 墨水兒. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type moshuir with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 墨水儿 from the suggestions. Typing moshuir into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
墨水儿 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.