水球

水球

Chinese

		water; river	ball; sphere
simp. and trad. (水球)		水	球

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuǐqiú

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄑㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² kau⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): chúi-kiû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shuǐqiú
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄑㄧㄡˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeichyou
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Pinyin: shuǐqiúr
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄑㄧㄡˊㄦ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeichyoul
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕʰjɤʊɻ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi² kau⁴
    • Yale: séui kàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey² kau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu² keo⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ kʰɐu̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-kiû
    • Tâi-lô: tsuí-kiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'kiuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiu¹³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiu²⁴/

Noun

水球

1. water polo

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
水	球
すい Grade: 1	きゅう Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

水 (sui, “water”) +‎ 球 (kyū, “ball”)

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) すいきゅう [sùíkyúú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [sɨᵝikʲɨᵝː]

Noun

水球 (hiragana すいきゅう, rōmaji suikyū)

1. water polo

References

1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN