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跳水

Mandarin · pinyin tiào shuǐ

to dive (into water)
(sports) diving
to commit suicide by jumping into water
(fig.) (of stock prices etc) to fall dramatically

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跳: tiào · jump, leap, vault, bounce; dance
水: shuǐ · water, liquid, lotion, juice

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4–3 · tiao4 shui3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

tiu3 seoi2

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

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verb

(verb-object) to dive; to jump into water
(verb-object) to decrease speedily
(finance, of a stock) to plummet
(Sichuanese, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to commit suicide by jumping into a body of water

noun

diving (jumping into water)

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