水雞

Chinese

water; river fowl; chicken
trad. (水雞/水鷄) 水 雞/鷄
simp. (水鸡) 水 鸡

Pronunciation


Noun

水雞

  1. (literary or dialectal) frog
  2. Alternative name for 秧雞/秧鸡 (yāngjī, “rail (bird)”).
  3. Alternative name for 蜑家 (dànjiā, “Tanka people”).
  4. (Wenzhou Wu) duck
  5. (Lichuan Gan, Shaojiang Min) soft-shell turtle
  6. (Cantonese) a person caught in the rain and soaked through
  7. (Cantonese) bong made with a coarse bamboo pipe
  8. (Cantonese, dated) ship's prostitute
  9. (southern Taiwanese Hokkien) female genitals

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Descendants

  • → Indonesian: swike
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