水泵

shuǐbèng

noun #21,619

Measure Word

一台水泵 tái

Meanings

1 water pump

Characters

pump (machine for moving fluid)

Examples

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.

水泵坏了，地下室开始积水。

Shuǐbèng huài le, dìxiàshì kāishǐ jī shuǐ.

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