Examples
shuǐ jǐng水井shì是kě yǐ可以qǔ shuǐ取水de的dì fang地方。
水井是可以取水的地方。
A well is a place where you can get water.
含义是哪里有水井，哪里就有居民。
The implication was that where there was a well, there were residents.
“胡同”这个词，本意是“水井”，来源于700年前的蒙古语。
The term "hutong", originally meaning "water well", came from the Mongolian language about 700 years ago.