度水

Chinese

		to measure	water; money
simp. and trad. (度水)		度	水

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dok⁶ seoi²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dok⁶ seoi²
    • Yale: dohk séui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dok⁹ soey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dog⁶ sêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔːk̚² sɵy̯³⁵/

Verb

度水

1. (Cantonese, colloquial) to borrow money

References

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