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水雞
简 水鸡 · 繁 水雞Mandarin · pinyin shuǐ jī
Meanings
- moorhen (genus Gallinula)
- gallinule
- frog
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3–1 · shui3 ji1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
seoi2 gai1
Cantonese word readings for 水雞. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- (literary or dialectal) frog
- (alt-of, alternative, name) Alternative name for 秧雞／秧鸡 (yāngjī, “rail (bird)”).
- (alt-of, alternative, name) Alternative name for 蜑家 (dànjiā, “Tanka people”).
- (Wenzhounese) duck
- (Lichuan Gan, Shaojiang Min) soft-shell turtle
- (Cantonese) a person caught in the rain and soaked through
- (Cantonese) bong made with a coarse bamboo pipe
- (Cantonese, dated) ship's prostitute
- (southern Taiwanese Hokkien) female genitals
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