流水

Chinese

	to flow; to spread; to circulate to flow; to spread; to circulate; to move	water; river
trad. (流水)	流	水
simp. ^#(流水)	流	水
anagram	水流

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): liúshuǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴ seoi²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): liù-súi
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lâu-chúi / liû-súi / lâu-súi

(Teochew, Peng'im): liu⁵ zui²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liúshuǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lióushuěi
  - Wade–Giles: liu²-shui³
  - Yale: lyóu-shwěi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lioushoei
  - Palladius: люшуй (ljušuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lau⁴ seoi²
  - Yale: làuh séui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴ soey²
  - Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴ sêu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹ sɵy̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liù-súi
  - Hakka Romanization System: liu^ˇ sui^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: liu² sui³
  - Sinological IPA: /li̯u¹¹ su̯i³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâu-chúi
  - Tâi-lô: lâu-tsuí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lauzuie
  - IPA (Taipei): /lau²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lau¹³⁻²² t͡sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lau²³⁻³³ t͡sui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lau²⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lau²⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liû-súi
  - Tâi-lô: liû-suí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liusuie
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /liu²³⁻³³ sui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liu²⁴⁻²² sui⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liu¹³⁻²² sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /liu²⁴⁻¹¹ sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /liu²⁴⁻²² sui⁵³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâu-súi
  - Tâi-lô: lâu-suí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lausuie
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lau²³⁻³³ sui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lau²⁴⁻¹¹ sui⁵³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: liu⁵ zui²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: liû tsúi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /liu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵²/

Noun

流水

flowing water
(figurative) something flowing rapidly, continually or irreversibly like water
(figurative, business) turnover

Synonyms

(turnover): 營業額／营业额 (yíngyè'é)

Derived terms

付之流水
令行如流水
付諸流水 / 付诸流水
打了個落花流水 / 打了个落花流水
放流水標準 / 放流水标准
流水不腐，戶樞不蠹 / 流水不腐，户枢不蠹 (liúshuǐbùfǔ, hùshūbùdù)
流水作業 / 流水作业
流水對 / 流水对
流水席 (liúshuǐxí)
流水帳 / 流水帐 (liúshuǐzhàng)
流水序
流水板
流水無情 / 流水无情
流水簿子 (liúshuǐ bùzi)
流水線 / 流水线 (liúshuǐxiàn)
流水腰
流水落花
流水號 / 流水号 (liúshuǐhào)
流水行雲 / 流水行云 (liúshuǐxíngyún)
流水賬 / 流水账 (liúshuǐzhàng)
流水高山
滑流水
落花有意，流水無情 / 落花有意，流水无情 (luòhuā yǒuyì, liúshuǐ wúqíng)
落花流水 (luòhuāliúshuǐ)
行雲流水 / 行云流水 (xíngyúnliúshuǐ)
西皮流水
車如流水馬如龍 / 车如流水马如龙
高山流水 (gāoshānliúshuǐ)

Proper noun

流水

(～鎮) Liushui (a town in Yicheng, Xiangyang, Hubei, China)
(～鎮) Liushui (a town in Pingtan, Fuzhou, Fujian, China)