容量

róngliàng

noun HSK 6 #19,357

Meanings

Literally 'contain quantity' - how much something can hold

HSK 6

手机的存储容量越来越大了。

Shǒujī de cúnchǔ róngliàng yuèláiyuè dà le.

Phone storage capacity is getting bigger and bigger.

HSK 7-9

这个水瓶的容量是500毫升。

Zhège shuǐpíng de róngliàng shì wǔbǎi háoshēng.

This water bottle has a capacity of 500 milliliters.

usage

容量 is used for both physical volume (水瓶的容量) and digital storage (存储容量, 内存容量). For measuring area or spatial size, use 面积 instead.

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