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Chinese
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to cross; to go over; (experienced action marker) to cross; to go over; (experienced action marker); to pass; to celebrate; to live; to get along; excessively; too- |
water; river
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| trad. (過水)
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過
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水
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| simp. (过水)
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过
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水
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Pronunciation
Verb
過水
- to dunk hot noodles in cool water before serving them
- to rinse (clothes); to wash out
- (literary or Hakka, Southern Min) to cross a river or stream
- 過水路面／过水路面 ― guòshuǐ lùmiàn ― low water crossing
- (mahjong) to relinquish one's chance of completing a hand
- (obsolete, vulgar) to have sexual intercourse
- (dialectal Mandarin) to let water flow past
- (Cantonese) to pay; to hand over the money
- (Hakka) to pass a test
- (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to leak water; to seep
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to become overripe
- (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien, dated) to cross the ocean and go to Southeast Asia
Derived terms