滑溜溜

Chinese

		comical; cunning; slippery comical; cunning; slippery; smooth	rolling; spinning; whirling rolling; spinning; whirling; flowing; dripping; progressing
trad. (滑溜溜)		滑	溜溜
simp. #(滑溜溜)		滑	溜溜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huáliūliū

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄌㄧㄡ ㄌㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waat⁶ lau⁶ lau⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ku̍t-liu-liu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huáliūliū
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄌㄧㄡ ㄌㄧㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huáliouliou
    • Wade–Giles: hua²-liu¹-liu¹
    • Yale: hwá-lyōu-lyōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwalhioulhiou
    • Palladius: хуалюлю (xualjulju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵ li̯oʊ̯⁵⁵ li̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waat⁶ lau⁶ lau⁶
    • Yale: waaht lauh lauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waat⁹ lau⁶ lau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wad⁶ leo⁶ leo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːt̚² lɐu̯²² lɐu̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ku̍t-liu-liu
    • Tâi-lô: ku̍t-liu-liu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kudliuliw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kut̚⁴⁻³² liu⁴⁴⁻²² liu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kut̚²⁴⁻² liu³³ liu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kut̚¹²¹⁻²¹ liu⁴⁴⁻²² liu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kut̚⁴⁻³² liu⁴⁴⁻³³ liu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kut̚⁴⁻³² liu⁴⁴⁻³³ liu⁴⁴/

Adjective

滑溜溜

1. (ideophonic) smooth; slippery

   • 喫了幾筷，滑溜溜的不知是魚是人，便把他兜肚連腸的吐出。 [MSC, trad.]
     吃了几筷，滑溜溜的不知是鱼是人，便把他兜肚连肠的吐出。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1918; Lu Xun, A Madman's Diary, Part 4

     Chī le jǐ kuài, huáliūliū de bùzhī shì yú shì rén, biàn bǎ tā dōudùliáncháng de tǔ chū. [Pinyin]

     I ate a few bites with my chopsticks, but it was so slimy that I couldn't tell whether it was a fish or a person. I ended up vomiting the whole kit and caboodle.

Synonyms

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• 光滑 (guānghuá)
• 光溜 (guāngliu) (colloquial)
• 平滑 (pínghuá)
• 溜 (literary, or in compounds)
• 滑
• 滑潤 / 滑润 (huárùn)
• 細膩 / 细腻 (xìnì)
• 𨤡 / 𬪺 (guang⁴) (Sichuanese)