水花

Chinese

		water; river	flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
trad. (水花)		水	花
simp. #(水花)		水	花

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuǐhuā

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄏㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² faa¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chúi-hoe / chúi-hoa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐhuā
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄏㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuěihua
    • Wade–Giles: shui³-hua¹
    • Yale: shwěi-hwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeihua
    • Palladius: шуйхуа (šujxua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐhuār
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄏㄨㄚㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuěihuar
    • Wade–Giles: shui³-hua¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: shwěi-hwār
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeihual
    • Palladius: шуйхуар (šujxuar)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ɑɻ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi² faa¹
    • Yale: séui fā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey² faa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu² fa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ faː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-hoe
    • Tâi-lô: tsuí-hue
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'hoef
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hue³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hue⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-hoa
    • Tâi-lô: tsuí-hua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'hoaf
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hua⁴⁴/

Noun

水花

1. splash; spray
2. (dialectal) water bloom
3. (dialectal) chicken pox; water pox

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 水痘 (“chicken pox”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		水痘
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	水痘兒, 水花兒 dated
	Taiwan	水痘
	Harbin	水痘兒
	Singapore	水痘
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	水痘兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	水痘兒
	Xi'an	水痘兒
	Xuzhou	水痘子
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	水痘子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	水痘子
	Lanzhou	水痘子
	Ürümqi	水痘
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	水痘兒
	Wuhan	水花
	Guiyang	水痘, 耍工
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	水花
Cantonese	Hong Kong	水痘
	Dongguan	水痘
Gan	Nanchang	水花花
	Pingxiang	水餜子
Hakka	Meixian	水痘
	Yudu	水痘子, 水好事
Huizhou	Jixi	水痘
Jin	Taiyuan	水痘
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	水痘
Southern Min	Xiamen	水珠
	Quanzhou	水珠
	Zhangzhou	水珠
	Tainan	水珠
	Shantou	水痘
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	水痘
Wu	Shanghai	水赤痘, 水痘
	Suzhou	水痘
	Danyang	水痘痘
	Ningbo	水痘
	Wenzhou	野寶, 水寶
	Jinhua	水痘
Xiang	Changsha	水痘子
	Loudi	水痘