游乾水

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Chinese

to walk; to tour; to roam
to walk; to tour; to roam; to swim; to travel
 
dry; clean; male
dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname
 
water; river
trad. (游乾水)
simp. (游干水)
Literally: “dry swimming”.

Etymology

Likely due to the similarity in arm movement between shuffling mahjong tiles and swimming.

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Verb

游乾水

  1. (Cantonese) to play mahjong

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