走水

Chinese

		to walk; to go; to move to walk; to go; to move; to leave	water; river
simp. and trad. (走水)		走	水

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǒushuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄡˇ ㄕㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau² seoi²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): cháu-chúi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǒushuǐ [Phonetic: zóushuǐ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄡˇ ㄕㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǒushuěi
    • Wade–Giles: tsou³-shui³
    • Yale: dzǒu-shwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzooushoei
    • Palladius: цзоушуй (czoušuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau² seoi²
    • Yale: jáu séui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau² soey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo² sêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³⁵ sɵy̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu-chúi
    • Tâi-lô: tsáu-tsuí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zawzuie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sui⁴¹/

Verb

走水

1. (of water) to flow
2. to leak water
3. (euphemistic) to catch on fire; to be on fire
4. (obsolete) to swim
5. (obsolete) to leave by boat
6. (figurative, obsolete) to manage accounts
7. (figurative, obsolete) to divulge secrets
8. (figurative, dialectal) to travel around trading on one's own; to be an itinerant trader

Synonyms

• (to be an itinerant trader): 跑單幫／跑单帮 (pǎodānbāng), 走單幫／走单帮

Derived terms

• 走水的

 

Noun

走水

1. running water