泗水

Mandarin · pinyin Sì Shuǐ#

Meanings · Sì Shuǐ

  1. Si River in Shandong
Mandarin · pinyin Sì shuǐ#

Meanings · Sì shuǐ

  1. Sishui County in Jining 濟寧 Jǐ níng, Shandong
  2. Surabaya, capital of East Java province of Indonesia
Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

泗
sì · mucous; nasal flow; sniffle; river in Shandong
水
shuǐ · water, liquid, lotion, juice
Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–3 · Si4 Shui3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links1same-tone record
Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗
Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

泗水 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

name

  1. Si River (a river in Shandong, China)
  2. (~縣) Sishui (a county of Jining, Shandong, China)
  3. (~市) Surabaya (a city, the provincial capital of East Java, Indonesia)

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

泗水 · Si4 Shui3 · Si4 shui3
CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · edition 2026-10-13 · source lines 64,014, 64,015
Original dictionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source & transformation details
Exact source records泗水 泗水 [Si4 Shui3] /Si River in Shandong/泗水 泗水 [Si4 shui3] /Sishui County in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Ji3 ning2], Shandong/Surabaya, capital of East Java province of Indonesia/