出水
Meanings
- (Cooking technique) Blanch or blanching
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 出水 chū shuǐ CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto discharge water; to appear out of the water; to break the surface
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: chu1shui3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 14 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ceot1 seoi2
Cantonese word readings for 出水. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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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