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/
• 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

• (Cantonese) 潲水 (shàoshuǐ)
• (Hakka) 汁水 (zhīshuǐ)
• (Hokkien, Teochew) 潘水, 潘醪, 潘泔 (pāngān), 米潘, 潘 (phun)
• (Xiang) 米潲水

Derived terms

• 泔水桶
• 米泔水 (mǐgānshuǐ)