泔水

Chinese

		slop from rinsing rice	water; river
simp. and trad. (泔水)		泔	水

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gānshuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢ ㄕㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹ seoi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gānshuǐ → gānshui (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢ ㄕㄨㄟˇ → ㄍㄢ ˙ㄕㄨㄟ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ganshue̊i
    • Wade–Giles: kan¹-shui⁵
    • Yale: gān-shwei
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gan.shoei
    • Palladius: ганьшуй (ganʹšuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ → /kän⁵⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam¹ seoi²
    • Yale: gām séui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹ soey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem¹ sêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵ sɵy̯³⁵/

Noun

泔水

1. slops; swill; hogwash

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 泔水 (“slops; swill; hogwash”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		泔水
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	泔水
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	泔水
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	潲水, 惡水
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	泔水
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	潲水
	Wuhan	潲水
	Guiyang	潲水
	Liuzhou	潲水
Cantonese	Guangzhou	潲水
	Dongguan	潲水
Gan	Nanchang	潲水, 潲水子
	Lichuan	潲水, 泔水
	Pingxiang	潲水
Hakka	Meixian	潲水
Jin	Xinzhou	泔水
Northern Min	Jian'ou	潲水
Southern Min	Xiamen	潘水, 潘醪
	Quanzhou	潘水
	Zhangzhou	潘水
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	潲水
Wu	Shanghai	泔水, 米泔水
	Shanghai (Chongming)	泔水
Xiang	Changsha	潲水
	Loudi	潲水

• (Hakka) 汁水 (zhīshuǐ)
• (Hokkien) 潘泔 (pāngān)

Derived terms

• 泔水桶
• 米泔水 (mǐgānshuǐ)