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 (Jyutping): sik⁶ seoi²
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): sed⁶ sui³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chia̍h-chúi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ziah⁸ zui²

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• 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/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sed⁶ sui³
    • Sinological IPA: /sət̚⁵ suɪ³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-chúi
    • Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-tsuí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqzuie
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sia(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sia(ʔ)²⁴⁻² t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ t͡sui⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ziah⁸ zui²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsia̍h tsúi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siaʔ⁴⁻² t͡sui⁵²/

Noun

食水

1. (Cantonese, Southern Min) draft; depth of water drawn by a vessel
2. (Cantonese or Hong Kong; Zhangzhou Hokkien) drinking water; potable water

Synonyms

• (draft): 吃水 (chīshuǐ)
• (drinking water):

• 吃水 (chīshuǐ)
• 飲水／饮水 (yǐnshuǐ)
• 飲用水／饮用水 (yǐnyòngshuǐ)

 

Verb

食⫽水 (verb-object)

1. (Cantonese) to make large profits
2. (Hakka, Zhangzhou Hokkien, Teochew) to drink water
3. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to absorb water and shrink (of fabric)
4. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to wash new cloth in water and shrink
5. (Southern Min, figurative) to vainly hope to (do something); to attempt in vain

Synonyms

• (to drink water):

• 啉水 (Hakka, Hokkien)
• 喝水 (hēshuǐ)
• 飲水／饮水 (Hakka, literary or Cantonese)

 

• (to absorb water and shrink): (Hokkien) 束水, 落水, 燥水, 掬水, 勼水
• (to wash new cloth in water and shrink): (Hokkien) 糾水／纠水
• (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)

1. Hanja form^? of 식수 (“drinking water”).