水 shuǐ
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 水 — water, liquid, lotion, juice
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
水准
shuǐzhǔn
standard; level
Characters in this word
准 zhǔn
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 冫 — ice
- Made of
- 冫 ice 隹 short-tailed bird
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这份译稿的表达很自然，整体水准明显高于机器翻译。 Zhè fèn yìgǎo de biǎodá hěn zìrán, zhěngtǐ shuǐzhǔn míngxiǎn gāo yú jīqì fānyì. The wording of this translation is very natural, and its overall standard is clearly higher than machine translation.
- 这家乐团的演奏水准在国内数一数二。 Zhè jiā yuètuán de yǎnzòu shuǐzhǔn zài guónèi shǔyīshǔ'èr. This orchestra's standard of performance ranks among the best in the country.
- 他的中文水准提高得很快，今年已经能自由交谈了。 Tā de zhōngwén shuǐzhǔn tígāo de hěn kuài, jīnnián yǐjīng néng zìyóu jiāotán le. His standard of Chinese has improved quickly; this year he can already converse freely.