Talk:灑灑水

PoS

@Justinrleung, Wyang, Suzukaze-c, Tooironic I think I met a problem... I couldn't figure out the PoS of this word. It seems like a "PoS-less" phrase to me... It seems to be used as noun-like and as adjective-like, but I'm not sure after all. May I ask that what is your opinions? Dokurrat (talk) 08:29, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Call it a "phrase"; then there is no need to think about it, like with chengyu :D (I don't know. I'm not familiar with this phrase...) —Suzukaze-c◆◆ 08:37, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

If it's used like the Cantonese word, then it's probably an adjective or verb. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 08:39, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

I don‘t think the approach of splitting Chinese definitions by part of speech is logical, precisely for this reason. Look at 影響, forcibly split by PoS and the evolution and affinity of senses is no longer clear. This kind of PoS information should go on the definition line rather than the header. In ‘sasashui’, it is essentially a verb phrase (dongbin jiegou), which is ‘verb’ on Wiktionary (“to sprinkle water”). When it appears in ‘sasashui la!’, it is more of a noun: “something as easy as sprinkling water”. In other uses it can be an adjective (“like sprinkling water”), adverb, ... It’s not really a ‘phrase’ in the way Xiandai hanyu guifan cidian usually uses it I think. Wyang (talk) 21:27, 20 April 2018 (UTC)