過水
简 过水 · 繁 過水Meanings
- (verb) give money; to bribe; to transfer money; to run something under cold water (such as rinsing hot noodles with cold water to rid the excess starch); terminology used in a majong game;
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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.
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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-Canto includes this pinyin reference: guo4 shui3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gwo3 seoi2
Cantonese word readings for 過水. 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 dunk hot noodles in cool water before serving them
- to rinse (clothes); to wash out
- (literary or Hakka, Southern Min) to cross a river or stream
- (mahjong) to relinquish one's chance of completing a hand
- (obsolete, vulgar) to have sexual intercourse
- (dialectal Mandarin) to let water flow past
- (Cantonese) to pay; to hand over the money
- (Hakka) to pass a test
- (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to leak water; to seep
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to become overripe
- (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien, dated) to cross the ocean and go to Southeast Asia
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