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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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水
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
shuǐ
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ sywijX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*s.turʔ/ (E dialect: *-r > *-j)
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| English
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water; river
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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洪
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水
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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4156
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11948
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Phonetic
component
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共
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水
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Rime
group
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東
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脂
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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洪
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水
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Old
Chinese
|
/*ɡloːŋ/
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/*qʰʷljilʔ/
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Noun
洪水
- flood (usually disastrous overflow from a body of water); flooding; floodwater
- 容易鬧洪水／容易闹洪水 ― róngyì nào hóngshuǐ ― to be prone to flooding
Synonyms
- 大水 (dàshuǐ)
- 水浸 (seoi2 zam3) (Cantonese)
- 水災／水灾 (shuǐzāi)
- 洪災／洪灾 (hóngzāi)
- 鴻水／鸿水 (hóngshuǐ) (literary)
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
洪水 • (kōzui)
- flood
2015 September 14, Kaori Shoji, “When disaster strikes in Japan, keep calm and carry a diaper”, in The Japan Times, retrieved 2023-04-11:The Japanese disaster comes in many forms, and saigai include tensai (天災, literally, heaven-sent disasters — i.e., natural ones) like jishin (地震, earthquakes), kōzui (洪水, floods) and kaji (火事, fires).
See also
Korean
Noun
洪水 • (hongsu) (hangeul 홍수)
- Hanja form? of 홍수 (“flood”).
Vietnamese
Noun
洪水
- chữ Hán form of hồng thuỷ (“flood”).