泉水

泉水

Chinese

		fountain; spring	water; river
simp. and trad. (泉水)		泉	水
anagram		水泉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): quánshuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ

  (Chengdu, SP): quan² sui³

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun⁴ seoi²
• Gan (Wiktionary): 'qyon² sui³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chhièn-súi

  (Meixian, Guangdong): can² sui³

• Jin (Wiktionary): qye¹ sui²
• Min Dong (BUC): ciòng-cūi
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chôaⁿ-chúi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zuan⁵ zui²

• Wu (Wiktionary): xxi sr (T3)
• Xiang (Wiktionary): zienn² xyei³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: quánshuǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyuánshuěi
    • Wade–Giles: chʻüan²-shui³
    • Yale: chywán-shwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuanshoei
    • Palladius: цюаньшуй (cjuanʹšuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɥɛn³⁵ ʂweɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: quan² sui³
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: kuansui
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰyan²¹ suei⁵³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun⁴ seoi²
    • Yale: chyùhn séui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn⁴ soey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun⁴ sêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰyːn²¹ sɵy̯³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: 'qyon² sui³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˈt͡ɕʰyɵn²⁴ sui²¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhièn-súi
    • Hakka Romanization System: qienˇ sui`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qian² sui³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡ɕʰi̯en¹¹ su̯i³¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: can² sui³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰan¹¹ suɪ³¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: qye¹ sui²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡ɕʰye¹¹ suei⁵³/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ciòng-cūi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡suoŋ⁵³⁻³³ ^(t͡s-)ʒui³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chôaⁿ-chúi
    • Tâi-lô: tsuânn-tsuí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zvoazuie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡suã²⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡suã²⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡suã¹³⁻²² t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡suã²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡suã²³⁻³³ t͡sui⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zuan⁵ zui²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsuâⁿ tsúi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sũã⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: xxi sr (T3)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʑ̥i²² sz̩⁴⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: zienn² xyei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /t͡siẽ¹³ ɕye̞i⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /t͡ɕiẽ¹³ ɕye̞i⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ziuᴇn  ɕˠiuɪ^X/

Rime
Character	泉	水
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	疾緣切	式軌切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziuᴇn/	/ɕˠiuɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zʷiɛn/	/ɕʷᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zjuæn/	/ɕiuɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zwian/	/ɕjwiX/
Li Rong	/d͡ziuɛn/	/ɕjuiX/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭwɛn/	/ɕwiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯wɛn/	/ɕwiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	quán	shuǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyun4	seoi2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-N-ɢʷar  s.turʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɡʷen  qʰʷljilʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	泉	水
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	quán	shuǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ dzjwen ›	‹ sywijX ›
Old Chinese	/*s-N-ɢʷar/ (MC I!)	/*s.turʔ/ (E dialect: *-r > *-j)
English	spring, source	water; river
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	泉	水
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	10728	11948
Phonetic component	泉	水
Rime group	元	脂
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	全	水
Old Chinese	/*sɡʷen/	/*qʰʷljilʔ/

Noun

泉水

1. springwater

   • 相彼泉水，載清載濁。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     相彼泉水，载清载浊。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Xiàng bǐ quánshuǐ, zǎi qīng zǎi zhuó. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

Synonyms

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水泉 (shuǐquán) (literary or Min Nan)

泉 (quán) (literary, or in compounds)

Dialectal synonyms of 泉水 (“springwater”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		泉水
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		泉水
Mandarin	Harbin	泉水, 泉子水
	Jinan	泉水
	Luoyang	泉水
	Yinchuan	泉水
	Xining	泉水
	Ürümqi	泉水
	Wuhan	泉水
	Chengdu	泉水
	Guiyang	泉水
	Xuzhou	泉水
	Yangzhou	泉水
	Nanjing	泉水
	Singapore	泉水
Gan	Nanchang	泉水
	Lichuan	泉水
	Pingxiang	泉水
Hakka	Meixian	泉水
Huizhou	Jixi	泉水
Jin	Taiyuan	泉水
	Xinzhou	泉水
	Liangcheng	泉水
Min Dong	Fuzhou	泉水
Min Nan	Haikou	泉水
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	泉水
Wu	Shanghai	泉水
	Shanghai (Chongming)	泉水
	Danyang	泉水
	Hangzhou	泉水
	Ningbo	泉水
Xiang	Changsha	泉水

Derived terms

泉水河 (Quánshuǐhé)

See also

• 飲用水／饮用水 (yǐnyòngshuǐ)
• 淡水 (dànshuǐ)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
泉	水
いずみ Grade: 6	Grade: 1
kun’yomi	irregular

Proper noun

泉(いずみ)水 • (Izumi) 

1. a surname