食水
Chinese
eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed |
water; river | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (食水) | 食 | 水 | |
| simp. #(食水) | 食 | 水 | |
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: sik6 seoi2
- Yale: sihk séui
- Cantonese Pinyin: sik9 soey2
- Guangdong Romanization: xig6 sêu2
- Sinological IPA (key): /sɪk̚² sɵy̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-chúi
- Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-tsuí
- Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqzuie
- Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sia(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ t͡sui⁵³/
- Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sia(ʔ)²⁴⁻² t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
- Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ t͡sui⁵³/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: ziah8 zui2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsia̍h tsúi
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡siaʔ⁴⁻² t͡sui⁵²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
Noun
食水
- (nautical, Cantonese, Southern Min) draft; depth of water drawn by a vessel
- (Cantonese or Hong Kong; Zhangzhou Hokkien) drinking water; potable water
Synonyms
- (draft): 吃水 (chīshuǐ)
- (drinking water):
Verb
食⫽水 (verb-object)
- (Cantonese) to make large profits
- (Hakka, Zhangzhou Hokkien, Teochew) to drink water
- (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to absorb water and shrink (of fabric)
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to wash new cloth in water
- (Southern Min, figurative) to vainly hope to (do something); to attempt in vain
Synonyms
- (to drink water):
- (to absorb water and shrink):
Dialectal synonyms of 縮水 (“to shrink in the wash”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 縮水, 抽水 | |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 縮水 |
| Xining | 出水 | |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 縮水 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 縮水 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 縮水 |
| Hong Kong | 縮水 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 縮水 |
| Lichuan | 縮水 | |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 縮水 |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 縮水 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 縮水 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 縮水 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 縮水 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 跔水 | |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 縮水 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 縮水 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 勼水, 食水, 束水, 掬水 |
| Quanzhou | 勼水, 食水, 燥水 | |
| Zhangzhou | 糾水, 落水, 束水, 掬水 | |
| Tainan | 勼水 | |
| Jieyang | 勼水 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 縮水 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 縮水 |
| Shanghai (Chongming) | 縮水 | |
- (to vainly hope): 妄想 (wàngxiǎng)
Derived terms
- 新澤西，食水深 / 新泽西，食水深
Korean
| Hanja in this term | |
|---|---|
| 食 | 水 |
Noun
食水 • (siksu) (hangeul 식수)
- hanja form? of 식수 (“drinking water”)