水木清华

水木清華
shuǐmù-qīnghuá
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 clear water and fresh, bright trees
  2. 2 the Tsinghua University campus

Examples

HSK 6
Bìyè duō nián, tā hái chángcháng huáiniàn zài shuǐmù-qīnghuá dúshū de rìzi.
Years after graduating, he still misses his student days on the Tsinghua campus.
HSK 7-9
Zhè zuò yuánlín shuǐmù-qīnghuá, jǐngsè yírén.
This garden has clear water and fresh, bright trees, and the scenery is lovely.

Tips

history
From a line by the Jin poet 谢混, 水木湛清华, 'water and trees, clear and splendid'. The four characters hang over a hall in 清华园, the former royal garden that is now the campus of 清华大学, so the phrase became a byword for the university.

Stroke Order

水 shuǐ
木 mù
清 qīng
华 huá