泼冷水 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 潑冷水 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. pōlěngshuǐ ㄆㄛ ㄌㄥˇ ㄕㄨㄟˇ 男 女 to pour cold water on to dampen sb's enthusiasm fig. Character by character 泼(pō)splash 冷(lěng)cold 水(shuǐ)water A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT