走水

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
• Min Nan (POJ): cháu-chúi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zǒushuǐ [Phonetic: zóushuǐ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄡˇ ㄕㄨㄟˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzooushoei
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau² seoi²
    • Yale: jáu séui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau² soey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo² sêu²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³⁵ sɵy̯³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cháu-chúi
    • Tâi-lô: tsáu-tsuí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zawzuie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡saʊ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡saʊ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡saʊ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡saʊ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡saʊ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ 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. (figuratively, obsolete) to manage accounts
7. (figuratively, obsolete) to divulge secrets
8. (figuratively, 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
2. (dialectal) damp sheet (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)