水雞
Chinese
water; river | fowl; chicken | ||
---|---|---|---|
trad. (水雞/水鷄) | 水 | 雞/鷄 | |
simp. (水鸡) | 水 | 鸡 |
Pronunciation
Noun
水雞
- (literary or dialectal) frog
- Alternative name for 秧雞/秧鸡 (yāngjī, “rail (bird)”).
- Alternative name for 蜑家 (dànjiā, “Tanka people”).
- (Wenzhounese) duck
- (Lichuan Gan, Shaojiang Min) soft-shell turtle
- (Cantonese) a person caught in the rain and soaked through
- (Cantonese) bong made with a coarse bamboo pipe
- (Cantonese, dated) ship's prostitute
- (southern Taiwanese Hokkien) female genitals
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 青蛙 (“frog”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 鴨子 (“duck”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 鱉 (“softshell turtle”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 陰戶 (“vulva; female genitalia”) [map]
Descendants
- → Indonesian: swike
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