水球

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Chinese

		water; river	ball; sphere
simp. and trad. (水球)		水	球

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shuǐqiú

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄑㄧㄡˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² kau⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chúi-kiû

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐqiú
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄑㄧㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shuěicióu
  - Wade–Giles: shui³-chʻiu²
  - Yale: shwěi-chyóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeichyou
  - Palladius: шуйцю (šujcju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐqiúr
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄑㄧㄡˊㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shuěicióur
  - Wade–Giles: shui³-chʻiu²-ʼrh
  - Yale: shwěi-chyóur
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeichyoul
  - Palladius: шуйцюр (šujcjur)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰi̯ɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: seoi² kau⁴
  - Yale: séui kàuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soey² kau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: sêu² keo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ kʰɐu̯²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-kiû
  - Tâi-lô: tsuí-kiû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'kiuu
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiu²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiu¹³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kiu²⁴/

Noun

水球

water polo

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

水球

Kanji in this term
水	球
すい Grade: 1	きゅう Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

水 (sui, “water”) +‎ 球 (kyū, “ball”)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) すいきゅう (Heiban – )
IPA^(key):

Noun

水(すい)球(きゅう) • (suikyū)

water polo

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

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