水雞

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Chinese

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water; river fowl; chicken
trad. (水雞/水鷄) /
simp. (水鸡)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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水雞

  1. (literary or dialectal) frog
  2. Alternative name for 秧雞秧鸡 (yāngjī, “rail (bird)”).
  3. Alternative name for 蜑家 (dànjiā, “Tanka people”).
  4. (Wenzhounese) duck
  5. (Lichuan Gan, Shaojiang Min) soft-shell turtle
  6. (Cantonese) a person caught in the rain and soaked through
  7. (Cantonese) bong made with a coarse bamboo pipe
  8. (Cantonese, dated) ship's prostitute
  9. (southern Taiwanese Hokkien) female genitals

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: swike