Illustration: In the tiled washing area of a neighborhood bathhouse, an attendant lifts a clogged drain cover with one hand and pulls away a tangled washcloth with the other. The shallow water spread across the floor immediately funnels toward the exposed drain in a visible swirling stream.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

排はい水すい

haisui

to drain water

Example sentences

  1. 学校がっこうはプールの水みずを月一回つきいっかい排水はいすいする。

    The school drains the pool once a month.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 石室内部せきしつないぶに排水はいすい施設しせつがある。

    There are drainage facilities inside the rock chamber.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 排水はいすいのため床ゆかの周まわりに溝みぞを巡めぐらしていることも多おおい。

    Gutters were commonly dug in the circumference of the earthen floor for drainage.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 排水

  • 排repudiate; excludeOnハイ
  • 水waterOnスイKunみず・みず-

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