饮水

• Pinyin: yǐn shuǐ
• Desglose de hanzi: 饮 = 食 + 欠 (food/nourishment + open mouth — to drink); 水 = pictograph of flowing water

Significado

Agua potable; beber agua.

Used both as a verb phrase (饮水解渴 — to drink water to quench thirst) and as part of compound nouns (饮水安全 — drinking water safety, 饮水设施 — drinking water facilities). The proverb 饮水思源 (when drinking water, think of its source — remember the origins of one's blessings) is a very common cultural reference.

Ejemplos

1. 这个偏远山村长期靠未处理山泉饮水，水质堪忧，政府已启动供水管网改造。
2. 极端气候正在加剧多地饮水危机，若不系统干预，到本世纪中叶将有二十多亿人缺乏清洁饮水。
3. 长途登山时应定时少量补充饮水，别在剧烈消耗后一次喝太多，以免打乱电解质平衡。

Guía de uso

Contexto: health, environment, policy, everyday

Tono: neutral

Correcto

• 指挥部把保障灾区居民基本饮水列为首要任务，并迅速运送瓶装水和净水设备到重灾乡镇。(The command center made ensuring basic drinking water for disaster-area residents its top priority and quickly delivered bottled water and purification equipment to the hardest-hit townships.)
• 高温高湿环境下，建议作业人员每二十分钟补充约150到200毫升淡盐饮水，以维持水电解质平衡。(In hot, humid environments, workers are advised to drink about 150 to 200 milliliters of lightly salted water every twenty minutes to maintain water and electrolyte balance.)

Incorrecto

• 他饮水了很多书 — 饮水 collocates only with liquids; for reading or absorbing information use 汲取 or 吸收; 饮水 cannot take non-liquid objects

Origen e historia

饮 (to drink — 食 food radical + 欠 yawn/open mouth; to consume liquid) + 水 (water — 水 pictograph of flowing water)

Contexto cultural

Época: Classical–Modern

Generación: All ages

Contexto social: Universal