水餃子

Chinese

		water; river	crescent-shaped dumpling; jiaozi; gyoza crescent-shaped dumpling; jiaozi; gyoza; wonton
trad. (水餃子)		水	餃子
simp. (水饺子)		水	饺子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): фиҗёзы (fiži͡ozɨ, II-II-I)

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵sy-ciau-tsy

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• Mandarin
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: фиҗёзы (fiži͡ozɨ, II-II-I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fi⁵¹ t͡ɕiɔː⁵¹ t͡sz̩²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵sy-ciau-tsy
    • MiniDict: sy^去 ciau tsy
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²sr-jiau-tsr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sz̩³³ t͡ɕiɔ⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹/

Noun

水餃子

1. (regional) boiled dumpling

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 水餃 (“boiled jiaozi dumpling”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		水餃
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	水餃兒, 煮餑餑
	Taiwan	水餃
	Singapore	水餃
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	下包子, 水餃, 餃子
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	水餃兒
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	水餃子, 扁食
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	水餃
Cantonese	Guangzhou	水餃
	Hong Kong	水餃
	Dongguan	水餃
	Singapore (Guangfu)	水餃
Gan	Lichuan	水餃
	Pingxiang	水餃
Hakka	Yudu	水餃子
Southern Min	Manila (Hokkien)	水餃
Wu	Shanghai	水餃, 水餃子
	Suzhou	餃子, 水餃子
	Wenzhou	餃兒

Japanese

Kanji in this term
水	餃	子
すい Grade: 1	ぎょう Hyōgaiji	ざ Grade: 1
on’yomi	kan’yōon	irregular

Etymology

From 水(すい) (sui, “water”) + 餃(ぎょう)子(ざ) (gyōza, “gyoza”), probably formed under influence of Chinese 水餃／水饺 (shuǐjiǎo).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) すいぎょ​ーざ [sùígyóꜜòzà] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [sɨᵝiɡʲo̞ːza̠]

Noun

水(すい)餃(ぎょう)子(ざ) or 水餃子(すいギョウザ) or 水餃子(すいギョーザ) • (suigyōza) 

1. boiled gyoza (dumpling)