水生

Chinese

		water; river	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad. (水生)		水	生
anagram		生水

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuǐshēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² sang¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): zui² sên¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐshēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄕㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuěisheng
    • Wade–Giles: shui³-shêng¹
    • Yale: shwěi-shēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeisheng
    • Palladius: шуйшэн (šujšɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi² sang¹
    • Yale: séui sāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey² sang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu² seng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zui² sên¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsúi seⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui⁵²⁻³⁵ sẽ³³/

Adjective

水生

1. (attributive, biology) aquatic (living in water)

Antonyms

• 陸生／陆生 (lùshēng)

Noun

水生

1. (Teochew) oyster

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 牡蠣 (“oyster”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		蠣, 蠔, 牡蠣, 牡蛤, 蠣蛤, 古賁
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		牡蠣, 蠔, 海蠣子, 海蠣
Taxonomic name		牡蠣
Mandarin	Taiwan	牡蠣, 蚵仔, 蚵
	Yantai (Muping)	海蠣子
	Nanning (Wuming)	蠔
	Malaysia	蠔
	Singapore	蠔
Cantonese	Guangzhou	蠔
	Hong Kong	蠔, 生蠔
	Dongguan	蠔
	Yangjiang	蠔
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	蠔
	Singapore (Guangfu)	蠔
Hakka	Meixian	蠔
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	蚵仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	蚵仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	蚵仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	蚵
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	蚵仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	蚵
Northern Min	Jian'ou	蠣黃
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	蠣
	Lianjiang	八蠣
	Fuqing	蠣
	Matsu	蠣
	Singapore (Fuqing)	蠣
Southern Min	Xiamen	蚵仔, 蚵
	Quanzhou	蚵仔, 蚵
	Zhangzhou	蚵仔, 蚵
	Zhangzhou (Changtai)	蚵仔
	Zhao'an	蚵仔
	Taipei	蚵仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	蚵
	Kaohsiung	蚵仔
	Yilan	蚵仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	蚵仔
	Taichung	蚵仔
	Taichung (Wuqi)	蚵
	Tainan	蚵仔
	Taitung	蚵仔
	Hsinchu	蚵仔
	Kinmen	蚵
	Penghu (Magong)	蚵
	Penang (Hokkien)	蚵
	Singapore (Hokkien)	蚵
	Manila (Hokkien)	蚵仔
	Chaozhou	蠔
	Shantou	蠔, 水生
	Shantou (Chenghai)	蠔
	Nan'ao (Houzhai)	蠔
	Nan'ao (Yun'ao)	蠔仔
	Jieyang	蠔, 水生, 水魚
	Haifeng	蠔
	Singapore (Teochew)	蠔
	Leizhou	蠔
	Wenchang	蠔
Puxian Min	Putian	蚮
	Putian (Donghai)	蠔
	Xianyou	蚮, 蠔
Wu	Ningbo	蠣黃
	Wenzhou	蠣膏

Japanese

Kanji in this term
水	生
すい Grade: 1	せい Grade: 1
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
水棲

Etymology

生 is a daiyōji replacing 棲.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) すいせー [sùíséé] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [sɨᵝise̞ː]

Noun

水(すい)生(せい) • (suisei) 

1. (biology) aquatic (life)

Antonyms

• 陸生(りくせい) (rikusei): terrestrial (life)

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.