墨水

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Chinese

China ink; ink stick; (abbrev.) water; river
simp. and trad.
(墨水) 		墨 水
anagram 水墨

Pronunciation

Noun

墨水

  1. prepared ink (in a liquid state, used in East Asian painting and calligraphy)
  2. ink (of the Western variety)
    鋼筆沒墨水兒啦。 [MSC, trad.]
    钢笔没墨水儿啦。 [MSC, simp.]
    Gāngbǐ méi mòshuǐr la.
    The fountain pen has used up its ink.
    打印機沒墨水兒了。 [MSC, trad.]
    打印机没墨水儿了。 [MSC, simp.]
    Dǎyìnjī méi mòshuǐr le.
    The printer has ran out of ink.
  3. (figuratively) scholarly knowledge; erudition

Synonyms

  • (prepared ink):
Dialectal synonyms of 墨汁 (“prepared India ink”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 墨汁
Mandarin Taiwan 墨汁
Harbin 墨汁
Yantai (Muping) 墨汁子
Jinan 墨汁兒
Luoyang 墨汁兒
Wanrong 墨汁
Xi'an 墨汁
Yinchuan 墨汁
Xining 墨汁, 墨汁兒
Ürümqi 墨汁
Wuhan 墨汁
Chengdu 墨汁
Guiyang 墨汁
Liuzhou 墨汁
Xuzhou 墨汁
Yangzhou 墨汁
Singapore 墨汁
Cantonese Dongguan 墨汁
Gan Nanchang 墨汁
Lichuan 墨汁
Pingxiang 墨汁 ready-made, 墨 rubbed from ink stick
Hakka Meixian 墨汁
Yudu 墨汁
Huizhou Jixi 墨汁
Jin Taiyuan 墨汁
Lishi 墨汁
Northern Min Jian'ou 墨汁
Eastern Min Fuzhou 墨汁
Southern Min Xiamen 墨膏, 墨烏
Quanzhou 墨膏
Jinjiang 墨水, 烏墨
Zhangzhou 墨膏, 墨烏
Manila (Hokkien) 烏墨, 墨汁, 墨膏
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 墨汁, 墨水
Wu Shanghai (Chongming) 墨汁
Suzhou 墨汁
Danyang 墨汁
Hangzhou 墨汁
Ningbo 墨汁
Wenzhou 墨汁
Jinhua 墨汁
Xiang Changsha 墨汁
Loudi 墨汁, 墨水

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