水洗

Chinese

		water; river	to wash; to bathe
simp. and trad. (水洗)		水	洗

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shuǐxǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄒㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² sai²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐxǐ [Phonetic: shuíxǐ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄒㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shuěisǐ
  - Wade–Giles: shui³-hsi³
  - Yale: shwěi-syǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeishii
  - Palladius: шуйси (šujsi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ɕi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: seoi² sai²
  - Yale: séui sái
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soey² sai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: sêu² sei²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ sɐi̯³⁵/

Verb

水洗

(especially of clothes) to rinse; to wash with water

Antonyms

乾洗／干洗 (gānxǐ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
水	洗
すい Grade: 1	せん Grade: 6
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) すいせん [sùíséń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [sɨisẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

水(すい)洗(せん) • (suisen)

flushing with water, especially of a toilet

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.