滴水

滴水

Chinese

Etymology 1

		a drop; to drip	water; river
simp. and trad. (滴水)		滴	水
anagram		水滴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dīshuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧ ㄕㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dik⁶ seoi²
• Gan (Wiktionary): dit⁶ sui³
• Min Nan (POJ): tih-chúi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dīshuǐ → dīshui (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧ ㄕㄨㄟˇ → ㄉㄧ ˙ㄕㄨㄟ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dishue̊i
    • Wade–Giles: ti¹-shui⁵
    • Yale: dī-shwei
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: di.shoei
    • Palladius: дишуй (dišuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti⁵⁵ ʂweɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ → /ti⁵⁵ ʂweɪ̯²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: dik⁶ seoi²
    • Yale: dihk séui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dik⁹ soey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: dig⁶ sêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɪk̚² sɵy̯³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: dit⁶ sui³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tit̚⁵ sui²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tih-chúi
    • Tâi-lô: tih-tsuí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dihzuie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ti(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ti(ʔ)⁵ t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ti(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ti(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ t͡sui⁴¹/

Verb

滴水

1. to drip (of water)

Noun

滴水

1. dripping water
2. eaves

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 滴水 – see 的水 (“sideburns”). (This term, 滴水, is a variant form of 的水.)