水桶

Chinese

		water; river	pail; bucket; bin pail; bucket; bin; barrel
simp. and trad. (水桶)		水	桶

水桶

Etymology

“to ban someone from posting”

From the sense “go to have a bath in the bucket and calm down yourself”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuǐtǒng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄊㄨㄥˇ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): seoi² tung²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): sui² huung²

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): súi-thúng
• Eastern Min (BUC): cūi-tūng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zui³ tang³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chúi-tháng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zui² tang²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐtǒng [Phonetic: shuítǒng]
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄊㄨㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuěitǒng
    • Wade–Giles: shui³-tʻung³
    • Yale: shwěi-tǔng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeitoong
    • Palladius: шуйтун (šujtun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ tʰʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi² tung²
    • Yale: séui túng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey² tung²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu² tung²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ tʰʊŋ³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: sui² huung²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sui⁵⁵ hɵŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: súi-thúng
    • Hakka Romanization System: sui^ˋ tung^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sui³ tung³
    • Sinological IPA: /su̯i³¹ tʰuŋ³¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cūi-tūng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui³³⁻³⁵ ^(tʰ-)luŋ³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zui³ tang³ [Phonetic: zui⁵ lang³]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui⁴⁵³⁻²¹ ^(tʰ-)laŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zui³ tang³ [Phonetic: zui⁵ lang³]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui³³²⁻²¹ ^(tʰ-)laŋ³³²/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zui³ tang³ [Phonetic: zui⁵ tang³]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui⁴⁵³⁻²¹ tʰaŋ⁴⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-tháng
    • Tâi-lô: tsuí-tháng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuy'tarng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰaŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tʰaŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰaŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰaŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tʰaŋ⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zui² tang²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsúi tháng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui⁵²⁻³⁵ tʰaŋ⁵²⁻²¹/

Noun

水桶

1. (literally) bucket (container used to hold and carry liquids)

   • 搵定水桶半打，裝多啲水，乜都假 [Cantonese, trad.]
     揾定水桶半打，装多啲水，乜都假 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: Samuel Hui, 制水歌

     wan² ding⁶ seoi² tung² bun³ daa¹, zong¹ do¹ di¹ seoi², mat¹ dou¹ gaa² [Jyutping]

     Find six buckets and fill them with more water; nothing else matters

2. (figuratively) big waist

Synonyms

• (bucket): (Harbin Mandarin) 韋德羅 / 韦德罗 (wéidéluó), (Hokkien) 桶仔, (Xiang) 擔水桶／担水桶

Related terms

• 吊桶 (diàotǒng)

See also

• 鉛桶／铅桶, 亞鉛桶／亚铅桶

Verb

水桶

1. (Taiwan, Internet slang) to ban someone from posting on an Internet forum

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “水桶”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 602.