放水

verb

1. to turn on the water
2. (sports) to throw a game (to intentionally play a game less seriously so that more likely to lose)
3. to intentionally lower difficulty of a test or an examination; to intentionally lower the standard needed to pass an examination or an inspection
4. (economics) to release money into the market; to increase currency circulation
5. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, slang, usually of a man) to pee; to urinate
6. (Cantonese) to throw (to intentionally lose a game); to intentionally perform badly
7. (Cantonese) to release a sum of money
8. (Hakka) to divert water to farmland (from a reservoir or mountain ponds)
9. (water conservancy) to release water stored or blocked in a higher level to a lower level
10. (Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to release farmland water
11. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to have diarrhea