水餃子

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Chinese

water; river
crescent-shaped dumpling; jiaozi; gyoza
crescent-shaped dumpling; jiaozi; gyoza; wonton
 
trad. (水餃子) 水 餃子
simp. (水饺子) 水 饺子

Pronunciation

Noun

水餃子

  1. (regional) boiled dumpling

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 水餃 (“boiled jiaozi dumpling”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 水餃
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 水餃兒, 煮餑餑
Taiwan 水餃
Singapore 水餃
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 下包子, 水餃, 餃子
Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 水餃兒
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 水餃子, 扁食
Southwestern Mandarin Liuzhou 水餃
Cantonese Guangzhou 水餃
Hong Kong 水餃
Dongguan 水餃
Singapore (Guangfu) 水餃
Gan Lichuan 水餃
Pingxiang 水餃
Hakka Yudu 水餃子
Southern Min Manila (Hokkien) 水餃
Wu Shanghai 水餃, 水餃子
Suzhou 餃子, 水餃子
Wenzhou 餃兒

Japanese

Kanji in this term
水 餃 子
すい
Grade: 1 		ぎょう
Hyōgai 		ざ
Grade: 1
on'yomi kan'yōon irregular

Etymology

From 水(すい) (sui, “water”) + 餃(ぎょう)子(ざ) (gyōza, “gyoza”), probably formed under influence of Chinese 水餃／水饺 (shuǐjiǎo).

Pronunciation

Noun

水(すい)餃(ぎょう)子(ざ) or 水餃子(すいギョウザ) or 水餃子(すいギョーザ) • (suigyōza) 

  1. boiled gyoza (dumpling)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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