霧水
Chinese
| fog; mist | water; river | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (霧水) | 霧 | 水 | |
| simp. (雾水) | 雾 | 水 | |
| anagram | 水霧/水雾 | ||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bū-chúi
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: wùshuǐ
- Zhuyin: ㄨˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: wùshuěi
- Wade–Giles: wu4-shui3
- Yale: wù-shwěi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuhshoei
- Palladius: ушуй (ušuj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /u⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: mou6 seoi2
- Yale: mouh séui
- Cantonese Pinyin: mou6 soey2
- Guangdong Romanization: mou6 sêu2
- Sinological IPA (key): /mou̯²² sɵy̯³⁵/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: mu5 sui2
- Sinological IPA (key): /ᵐbu³² sui⁵⁵/
- (Yangjiang Yue, Jiangcheng)
- Jyutping++: mou6 sui2
- Sinological IPA (key): /mou⁵⁵ ʃui²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bū-chúi
- Tâi-lô: bū-tsuí
- Phofsit Daibuun: buxzuie
- IPA (Taipei): /bu³³⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu³³⁻²¹ t͡sui⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
Noun
霧水
- fog; mist; water droplets in fog
- (Cantonese, Zhongshan Min) dew
- (figurative) fleeting thing
- (archaic) rainwater
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 霧 (“fog”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 露水 (“dew”) [map]
Derived terms
Verb
霧⫽水 (verb-object)
Further reading
- “霧水”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.