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开水

kāi shuǐ

HSK 4 · word 2608 of 3,000

Meaning

• boiled water
• boiling water

Example sentence

Characters in 开水

• 开 kāi to open (transitive or intransitive)
• 水 shuǐ water

开 here boiled plus 水, water. The same 开 as 开门, extended to water brought to the boil.

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