跌watt

Chinese

		to drop; to fall; to tumble
simp. and trad. (跌watt)		跌	watt
Literally: “to drop in watts”.

Etymology

跌 (dit³) +‎ English watt.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dit³ wot¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dit³ wot¹
    • Yale: dit wōt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dit⁸ wot⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: did³ wod¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiːt̚³ wɔːt̚⁵/

Verb

跌⫽watt (verb-object)

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to decline in performance