放水

放水

1. to turn on the water
2. (sports) to throw a game (to intentionally play a game less seriously so that more likely to lose)
3. to intentionally lower difficulty of a test or an examination; to intentionally lower the standard needed to pass an examination or an inspection
4. (economics) to release money into the market; to increase currency circulation
5. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, slang, usually of a man) to pee; to urinate
6. (Cantonese) to intentionally perform badly
7. (Cantonese) to release a sum of money
8. (Hakka) to divert water to farmland (from a reservoir or mountain ponds)
9. (water conservancy) to release water stored or blocked in a higher level to a lower level
10. (Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to release farmland water
11. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to have diarrhea

• (to urinate):

• (to release farmland water): (Hakka) 旱水
• (to have diarrhea):

• “Entry #2139”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.

Compound of 放(ほう) (hō) + 水(すい) (sui).

• IPA^(key): [ho̞ːsɨi]

放(ほう)水(すい) • (hōsui) 

1. water discharge; water drainage

• 排(はい)水(すい) (haisui)

• 放(ほう)水(すい)砲(ほう) (hōsui hō)
• 放(ほう)水(すい)銃(じゅう) (hōsui jū)

放(ほう)水(すい)する • (hōsui suru) suru (stem 放(ほう)水(すい)し (hōsui shi), past 放(ほう)水(すい)した (hōsui shita))

1. to discharge water; to drain water

• 排(はい)水(すい)する (haisui suru)