水泵

shuǐbèng

noun #21,619

Measure Word

一台水泵 tái

Meanings

1 water pump

Characters

pump (machine for moving fluid)

Examples

HSK 6

农民用水泵把水引到田地里。

Nóngmín yòng shuǐbèng bǎ shuǐ yǐn dào tiándì lǐ.

Farmers use water pumps to bring water to the fields.

HSK 7-9

水泵坏了，地下室开始积水。

Shuǐbèng huài le, dìxiàshì kāishǐ jīshuǐ.

The water pump broke and the basement started to flood.

Tips

memory

水 (water) + 泵 (pump). The character 泵 is itself a semantic compound: 石 (stone/machine base) + 水 (water) - a machine that moves water.

Stroke Order

水 shuǐ

泵 bèng