落水鬼

Chinese

to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind water; river ghost; sly; crafty
trad. (落水鬼) 落 水 鬼
simp. #(落水鬼) 落 水 鬼

Pronunciation

  • Wu (Northern, Wugniu): 8loq-sy5-ciu5 / 8loq-1syu3-ciu3 / 8loq-suei3-kuei3
  • Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): lo6 xyei3 guei3
  • Wu
    • (Northern: Shanghai)
      • Wugniu: 8loq-sy5-ciu5
      • MiniDict: loh入 sy去 ciu去
      • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 5loq-sr2-jy2
      • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /loʔ¹¹ sz̩²² t͡ɕy²³/
    • (Northern: Suzhou)
      • Wugniu: 8loq-1syu3-ciu3
      • MiniDict: loh入 syu上 ciu上
      • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /loʔ²² sz̩ʷ³³ t͡ɕy/
    • (Northern: Hangzhou)
      • Wugniu: 8loq-suei3-kuei3
      • MiniDict: loh入 suei上 kuei上
      • Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /loʔ²² szʷei⁵⁵ kui²¹/
  • Xiang
    • (Changsha)
      • Wiktionary: lo6 xyei3 guei3
      • Sinological IPA (key): /lo²⁴ ɕy̯e̞i̯⁴¹ ku̯e̞i̯⁴¹/

Noun

落水鬼

  1. (dialectal Mandarin, Wu, Xiang) drowning ghost; ghost of someone who drowned
  2. (Suzhounese, figurative) someone who is soaking wet

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 落湯雞 (“someone who is soaking wet; someone who looks like a drowned rat”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 落湯雞
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 落湯雞
Lanyin Mandarin Ürümqi 落湯雞
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 落湯雞
Cantonese Guangzhou 濕水雞
Hong Kong 落湯雞, 濕水雞
Jin Taiyuan 落湯雞
Southern Min Xiamen 落湯雞
Wu Shanghai 落湯雞
Suzhou 落湯雞, 落水鬼
Hangzhou 落湯雞
Ningbo 落湯雞
Wenzhou 濫水雞兒
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