水花

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Chinese

water; river
flower; blossom; to spend
flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern
 
trad. (水花) 水 花
simp. #(水花) 水 花

Pronunciation

Noun

水花

  1. splash; spray
  2. (dialectal) water bloom
  3. (dialectal) chicken pox; water pox

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 水痘 (“chicken pox”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 水痘
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 水痘兒, 水花兒 dated
Taiwan 水痘
Harbin 水痘兒
Singapore 水痘
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 水痘兒
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 水痘兒
Xi'an 水痘兒
Xuzhou 水痘子
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 水痘子
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 水痘子
Lanzhou 水痘子
Ürümqi 水痘
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 水痘兒
Wuhan 水花
Guiyang 水痘, 耍工
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 水花
Cantonese Hong Kong 水痘
Dongguan 水痘
Gan Nanchang 水花花
Pingxiang 水餜子
Hakka Meixian 水痘
Yudu 水痘子, 水好事
Huizhou Jixi 水痘
Jin Taiyuan 水痘
Eastern Min Fuzhou 水痘
Southern Min Xiamen 水珠
Quanzhou 水珠
Zhangzhou 水珠
Tainan 水珠
Shantou 水痘
Puxian Min Putian 水珠
Xianyou 水珠
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 水痘
Wu Shanghai 水赤痘, 水痘
Suzhou 水痘
Danyang 水痘痘
Ningbo 水痘
Wenzhou 野寶, 水寶
Jinhua 水痘
Xiang Changsha 水痘子
Loudi 水痘

References

  • 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “水花”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 605.
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