過水

過水

1. to dunk hot noodles in cool water before serving them
2. to rinse (clothes); to wash out
3. (literary or Hakka, Min Nan) to cross a river or stream
4. (mahjong) to relinquish one's chance of completing a hand
5. (obsolete, vulgar) to have sexual intercourse
6. (dialectal Mandarin) to let water flow past
7. (Cantonese) to pay; to hand over the money
8. (Hakka) to pass a test
9. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taiwanese Hokkien) to leak water; to seep
10. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to become overripe
11. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou Min Nan, dated) to cross the ocean and go to Southeast Asia