買水

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Chinese

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buy water; river
trad. (買水)
simp. (买水)
Literally: “to buy water”.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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買水

  1. (religion) to give up money as a symbolic act of "buying" water, which is then obtained for washing the body of the deceased, during a funeral

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