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秋水

qiūshuǐ
noun #46,046

Meanings

  1. 1 autumn waters, clear and calm
  2. 2 bright eyes (of a beautiful woman)
  3. 3 Autumn Floods, a chapter of the Zhuangzi

Examples

HSK 6
她那双秋水般的眼睛望着我。
Tā nà shuāng qiūshuǐ bān de yǎnjing wàng zhe wǒ.
She looked at me with eyes as clear as autumn water.
HSK 7-9
秋水清澈，倒映着远处的山。
Qiūshuǐ qīngchè, dàoyìng zhe yuǎnchù de shān.
The clear autumn water reflects the distant hills.
HSK 7-9
《庄子·秋水》里有庄子和惠子在桥上辩论的故事。
《 Zhuāngzǐ · Qiūshuǐ 》 lǐ yǒu Zhuāngzǐ hé Huìzǐ zài qiáo shàng biànlùn de gùshi.
The Autumn Floods chapter of the Zhuangzi tells of Zhuangzi and Huizi debating on a bridge.

Tips

culture
Eyes are compared to autumn water because it is the clearest and stillest of the year. The idiom 望穿秋水 'to gaze till one's eyes wear through' means to wait anxiously for someone to come.
history
Wang Bo's preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng has one of the most quoted couplets in Chinese: 落霞与孤鹜齐飞，秋水共长天一色, 'sunset clouds fly with a lone wild duck; the autumn waters and the endless sky are one color'.

Stroke Order

秋 qiū
水 shuǐ