Traditional: 開水
开水 (kāi shuǐ) means “boiled water; boiling water”. It is an HSK 5 Chinese word (traditional 開水) in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
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泡茶需要用开水。
Pào chá xūyào yòng kāishuǐ.
Making tea requires boiling water.
Updated: 2026-05-27