Tears in Chinese
tears · HSK 5
泪水
- 泪 tear
- 水 water
Counted with 滴: 一滴泪水
听到这个好消息，她流下了激动的泪水。 Hearing the good news, she shed tears of excitement.
Other ways to say tears
More words with 泪 or 水
How do you say tears in Chinese?
Tears in Chinese is 泪水 (lèi shuǐ). You can also say 眼泪 (yǎn lèi).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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