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出水

Mandarin · pinyin chū shuǐ

to discharge water
to appear out of the water
to break the surface

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出: chū · go out, send out; stand; produce
水: shuǐ · water, liquid, lotion, juice

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1–3 · chu1 shui3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ceot1 seoi2

Cantonese word readings for 出水. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

to appear out of water; to appear above water
to spurt out water; to discharge water; to send up water
(dated) to be freed from prostitution and start a new life
(Cantonese) to blanch (to boil an ingredient briefly to prepare it)
(Taiwanese Hakka, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to give vent to one's anger
(Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to undertake the duty; to assume responsibility
(Xiamen Hokkien) to set out (of a group of people)
(Xiamen Hokkien, dated) to have a robbery
(Taiwanese Hakka) to leak; to flow out with; to run off (of liquid)
(Xining Mandarin) to shrink in the wash
(Yangzhou Mandarin) to get out of jail; to be released from prison
(Puxian Min, of a construction project) to be completed
(slang) to ejaculate

name

(～市) Izumi (a city in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan)

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