Meaning of 汽水
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
- soda pop; carbonated soft drink
How to use 汽水
汽水 is an everyday word for any sweet fizzy drink, like cola or lemon soda. It is a countable noun, so you often hear it with 瓶 (píng) for bottles or 罐 (guàn) for cans. Example: 我想喝一瓶汽水。(Wǒ xiǎng hē yì píng qìshuǐ.) I want to drink a bottle of soda.
汽 (qì) means steam or gas, and 水 (shuǐ) means water, so 汽水 is literally "gas water." Picture a bottle of water full of tiny gas bubbles rising to the top.
Common mistake: Learners often write 气 (qì, air) instead of 汽 (qì, steam). Both are read qì, but 汽水 always uses 汽 with the water radical on the left, just like 汽车 (qìchē).
汽水 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
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汽 qì · gasoline · 7 strokes
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水 shuǐ · water · 4 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 汽水.
| 汽车 | qìchē | car; automobile |
| 水果 | shuǐguǒ | fruit |
| 水平 | shuǐpíng | horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc) |
| 公共汽车 | gōnggòng qìchē | bus |
| 药水 | yàoshuǐ | medicine in liquid form; bottled medicine |
| 凉水 | liángshuǐ | cool water; unboiled water |
| 汽油 | qìyóu | gasoline |
| 海水 | hǎishuǐ | seawater |
| 泪水 | lèishuǐ | teardrop; tears |
| 矿泉水 | kuàngquánshuǐ | mineral water |
| 开水 | kāishuǐ | boiled water; boiling water |
| 纯净水 | chúnjìngshuǐ | purified water |
Questions about 汽水
What does 汽水 mean?
汽水 (qìshuǐ) means "soda pop; carbonated soft drink" and is used as a noun.
How do you write 汽水?
汽水 is made of 2 characters: 汽 (7 strokes), 水 (4 strokes). That is 11 strokes in total.
Is 汽水 an HSK word?
Yes. 汽水 is on the HSK 4 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.
Is 汽水 the same as sparkling water?
Not usually. 汽水 normally means a sweetened soft drink. Plain sparkling water is more often called 苏打水 (sūdǎshuǐ) or 气泡水 (qìpàoshuǐ).
Do people say 汽水 or 可乐 for cola?
For cola specifically, people say 可乐 (kělè). 汽水 is the general category word, so 可乐 is one kind of 汽水.