池 (chí): pool
池 (chí) is a Chinese character meaning “pool.” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (semantic) and 也 (phonetic). It ranks #1694 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 池 water. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 水 (shuǐ, water), 汉 (hàn, Han ethnic group), 汽 (qì, steam).
Definitions
- pool
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 池
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 游泳池noun | yóu yǒng chí | swimming pool |
| 泳池noun | yǒng chí | swimming pool |
| 水池noun | shuǐ chí | pond |
| 池塘noun | chí táng | pool |
| 舞池noun | wǔ chí | dance floor |
| 池子noun | chí zi | pond |
| 浴池noun | yù chí | public bath |
| 化粪池noun | huà fèn chí | septic tank |
| 蓄水池noun | xù shuǐ chí | water reservoir |
| 便池noun | biàn chí | urinal |
| 鱼池noun | yú chí | fishpond |
| 城池noun | chéng chí | city |
| 蓄电池noun | xù diàn chí | secondary (rechargeable) battery |
| 菊池proper-noun | jú chí | Kikuchi (Japanese surname and place name) |
| 喷水池noun | pēn shuǐ chí | a fountain |
池 appears in 96 compound words: 10 as the first character, 71 as the last, and 19 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 池 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (6)
Example Sentences
小区的游泳池每天早上六点开放，很多居民习惯在上班前游几圈。
Xiǎoqū de yóuyǒngchí měitiān zǎoshang liù diǎn kāifàng, hěn duō jūmín xíguàn zài shàngbān qián yóu jǐ quān.
The community swimming pool opens at 6 AM every day, and many residents are used to swimming a few laps before work.
牛池灣紀律部隊宿舍失火 近天台後樓梯垃圾桶焚...
niú chí 灣 紀 lǜ bù 隊 sù shě shī huǒ jìn tiān tái 後 樓 tī lā jī tǒng fén . . .
Fire broke out in Ngau Chi Wan Disciplined Services Quarters...
牛池灣紀律部隊宿舍天台失火 救熄起因待查
niú chí 灣 紀 lǜ bù 隊 sù shě tiān tái shī huǒ jiù xī qǐ yīn dài chá
Fire broke out on the rooftop of Ngau Chi Wan Disciplined Services Quarters.
中国队包揽米兰冬奥会自由式滑雪女子U池冠亚军
zhōng guó duì bāo lǎn mǐ lán dōng ào huì zì yóu shì huá xuě nǚ zǐ chí guàn yà jūn
China sweeps Milan Winter Olympics freestyle skiing women's U-pool title and second place
...奥会)谷爱凌、李方慧摘得自由式滑雪女子U池金、银牌
. . . ào huì gǔ ài líng lǐ fāng huì zhāi dé zì yóu shì huá xuě nǚ zǐ chí jīn yín pái
... Olympics) Ailing Gu and Fanghui Li win freestyle skiing women's U-pool gold and silver medals
台北101風水池民眾提桶裝 賈永婕急喊話
tái běi 風 shuǐ chí mín 眾 tí tǒng 裝 賈 yǒng 婕 jí hǎn 話
Taipei 101 Wind Turbine Pool People Carrying Buckets of Fillings, Chia-Yung-Chieh Urgently Calls Out
泳池被隐藏在地板之下。
Yǒngchí bèi yǐncáng zài dìbǎn zhī xià.
The swimming pool is hidden under the floor.
遥控器电池没电了。
Yáokòngqì diànchí méidiàn le.
The remote control batteries died.
你现在有几块电池呀？
Nǐ xiànzài yǒu jǐ kuài diànchí ya?
How many batteries do you have right now?
我们看见池里有很多活鱼。
Wǒmen kànjiàn chí lǐ yǒu hěn duō huóyú.
We saw a lot of live fish in the pond.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 氵 (water) component
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