Chinese symbol for “drain”
排水
pái shuǐ
to drain
The closest CC-CEDICT match for drain is 排水 (pái shuǐ), defined as: to drain.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “drain”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 宣泄 (宣洩) | xuān xiè | to drain (by leading off water); to unburden oneself |
| 排泄 | pái xiè | to drain (factory waste etc); to excrete (urine, sweat etc) |
| 浍 (澮) | kuài | drain; stream |
| 渠 | qú | (artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (条 (tiáo)); (literary) big; great |
| 地漏 | dì lòu | drain; underground drainpipe |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 排水.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 安排 | ān pái | to arrange; to plan |
| 排名 | pái míng | to rank (1st, 2nd etc); ranking |
| 排除 | pái chú | to eliminate; to remove |
| 排列 | pái liè | to arrange in order; (math.) permutation |
| 排放 | pái fàng | to arrange in order; to emit; to discharge (exhaust gas, waste water etc) |
| 排队 (排隊) | pái duì | to line up |
| 水平 | shuǐ píng | horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc) |
| 水果 | shuǐ guǒ | fruit |
See also: Japanese symbol for “drain”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.