Chinese edit

water; river fowl; chicken
trad. (水雞/水鷄) /
simp. (水鸡)

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Noun edit

水雞

  1. (literary or dialectal) frog
  2. Alternative name for 秧雞秧鸡 (yāngjī, “rail (bird)”).
  3. Alternative name for 蜑家 (dànjiā, “Tanka people”).
  4. (Wenzhounese) duck
  5. (Lichuan Gan, Shaojiang Min) soft-shell turtle
  6. (Cantonese) a person caught in the rain and soaked through
  7. (Cantonese) bong made with a coarse bamboo pipe
  8. (Cantonese, dated) ship's prostitute
  9. (southern Taiwanese Hokkien) female genitals

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  • Indonesian: swike