水鬼

Chinese

		water; river	ghost; sly; crafty
trad. (水鬼)		水	鬼
simp. #(水鬼)		水	鬼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuǐguǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄍㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² gwai²
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zui³ gui³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chúi-kúi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐguǐ [Phonetic: shuíguǐ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄍㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuěiguěi
    • Wade–Giles: shui³-kuei³
    • Yale: shwěi-gwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeigoei
    • Palladius: шуйгуй (šujguj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ku̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi² gwai²
    • Yale: séui gwái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey² gwai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu² guei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ kʷɐi̯³⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zui³ gui³ [Phonetic: zui⁵ gui³]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui⁴⁵³⁻²¹ kui⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zui³ gui³ [Phonetic: zui⁵ gui³]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui³³²⁻²¹ kui³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-kúi
    • Tâi-lô: tsuí-kuí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'kuie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kui⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kui⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kui⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kui⁴¹/

Noun

水鬼

1. sea monster; water goblin
2. drowning ghost; ghost of someone who drowned
3. talented swimmer
4. (military) combat diver; frogman
5. (informal) Rolex Submariner

Synonyms

• (drowning ghost): (Hakka) 水鬼仔; (Xiang) 落屍鬼／落尸鬼, 落水鬼

Descendants

• → Tagalog: siyokoy

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “水鬼”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 604.