水天一色

Chinese

		water; river	day; sky; heaven	one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	colour; dice; look colour; dice; look; appearance
simp. and trad. (水天一色)		水	天	一	色

Etymology

From the famous line of Tengwang Ge Xu.

落霞與孤鶩齊飛，秋水共長天一色。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

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落霞与孤鹜齐飞，秋水共长天一色。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: 675, 王勃 (Wang Bo), 《滕王閣序》 (Tengwang Ge Xu), translated based on the Wikisource translation.

Luòxiá yǔ gūwù qí fēi, qiūshuǐ gòng chángtiān yīsè. [Pinyin]

The sunset is flying together with lonely wild goose, and the autumn water and the sky at the horizon are of one hue.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuǐtiānyīsè

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄧ ㄙㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² tin¹ jat¹ sik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐtiānyīsè [Phonetic: shuǐtiānyísè]
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄧ ㄙㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuěitianyisè
    • Wade–Giles: shui³-tʻien¹-i¹-sê⁴
    • Yale: shwěi-tyān-yī-sè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeitianiseh
    • Palladius: шуйтяньисэ (šujtjanʹisɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ i⁵⁵⁻³⁵ sɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi² tin¹ jat¹ sik¹
    • Yale: séui tīn yāt sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey² tin¹ jat⁷ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu² tin¹ yed¹ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵ jɐt̚⁵ sɪk̚⁵/

Idiom

水天一色

1. the water and the sky merge in one color