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落水
Mandarin · pinyin luò shuǐ
Meanings
- to fall into water
- to sink
- overboard
- fig. to degenerate
- to sink (into depravity)
- to go to the dogs
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4–3 · luo4 shui3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
lok6 seoi2
Cantonese word readings for 落水. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
verb
- (literary or dialectal) to fall into the water
- (figurative) to sink into depravity
- (figurative) to fall into a trap
- (by extension) to soak the cloth before making clothes
- (dialectal, including Cantonese, Hokkien) to go into the water
- (dialectal, including Cantonese, Hakka, Gan, Shehua, Wu) to rain
- (Hokkien) to load cargo onto a ship
- (Teochew) to suffer an attack (especially after making an error)
verb
- (Hokkien) to draw water for irrigation
verb
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to shrink when soaked in water (of fabric)
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