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

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

(of water) to flow
to leak water
(euphemistic) to catch on fire; to be on fire
(obsolete) to swim
(obsolete) to leave by boat
(figuratively, obsolete) to manage accounts
(figuratively, obsolete) to divulge secrets
(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

running water
(dialectal) damp sheet (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

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