Chinese edit

to get through water; money
trad. (通水)
simp. #(通水)

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Verb edit

通水

  1. to clear a waterway
  2. to supply water
  3. (literary) to act as an inside man; to provide assistance from the inside
  4. (Cantonese, colloquial) to tip off someone

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References edit

  • 阿塗 [Ah To] (2017), 七刻 [Chukhak], transl., 圖解廣東話 [Cantonese.jpg], Hong Kong: Whitepaper Publishing