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温泉

wēnquán

hot spring

A person soaking in a steaming hot spring pool surrounded by rocks
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Characters in this word

温 wēn

Strokes
12
Radical
氵 — water
Made of
氵 water 昷 warm, a warm meal
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 温

泉 quán

Strokes
9
Radical
水 — water, liquid, lotion, juice
Made of
白 white 水 water, liquid, lotion, juice
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 当地把废弃矿区改造成温泉度假村,却仍需处理地下水污染的历史问题。 Dāngdì bǎ fèiqì kuàngqū gǎizào chéng wēnquán dùjiàcūn, què réng xū chǔlǐ dìxiàshuǐ wūrǎn de lìshǐ wèntí. The local area has transformed an abandoned mining zone into a hot spring resort, but still needs to deal with the historical problem of groundwater pollution.
  • 冬天最舒服的事就是泡温泉,全身一下子暖和起来了。 Dōngtiān zuì shūfú de shì jiù shì pào wēnquán, quánshēn yíxiàzi nuǎnhuo qǐlái le. In winter the most comfortable thing is soaking in a hot spring — the whole body warms up immediately.
  • 山里有一个天然温泉,水温常年保持在四十度左右。 Shān lǐ yǒu yí gè tiānrán wēnquán, shuǐwēn chángnián bǎochí zài sìshí dù zuǒyòu. There is a natural hot spring in the mountains; the water stays around forty degrees all year.

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