水珠

Chinese

		water; river	pearl; bead
simp. and trad. (水珠)		水	珠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuǐzhū

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄓㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² zyu¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zui³ zou¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chúi-chu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐzhū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄓㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuěijhu
    • Wade–Giles: shui³-chu¹
    • Yale: shwěi-jū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeiju
    • Palladius: шуйчжу (šujčžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐzhūr
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄓㄨㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuěijhur
    • Wade–Giles: shui³-chu¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: shwěi-jūr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeijul
    • Palladius: шуйчжур (šujčžur)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂuɻʷ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi² zyu¹
    • Yale: séui jyū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey² dzy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu² ju¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ t͡syː⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zui³ zou¹ [Phonetic: zui⁵ lou¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui⁴⁵³⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)lɔu⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zui³ zou¹ [Phonetic: zui⁵ lou¹]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sui³³²⁻²¹ ^(t͡s-)lɔu⁵³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chúi-chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsuí-tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuyzw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡su³³/
    • IPA (Singapore): /t͡sui⁴²⁻²⁴ t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡su⁴⁴/

Noun

水珠

1. drop of water
2. (Chinese mythology) a kind of precious pearl that can attract springwater
3. (Hokkien, Puxian Min) chicken pox; water pox
4. (Singapore Hokkien) papule

Synonyms

• (drop of water): 水滴 (shuǐdī)
• (chicken pox):

Dialectal synonyms of 水痘 (“chicken pox”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		水痘
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	水痘兒, 水花兒 dated
	Taiwan	水痘
	Harbin	水痘兒
	Singapore	水痘
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	水痘兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	水痘兒
	Xi'an	水痘兒
	Xuzhou	水痘子
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	水痘子
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	水痘子
	Lanzhou	水痘子
	Ürümqi	水痘
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	水痘兒
	Wuhan	水花
	Guiyang	水痘, 耍工
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	水花
Cantonese	Hong Kong	水痘
	Dongguan	水痘
Gan	Nanchang	水花花
	Pingxiang	水餜子
Hakka	Meixian	水痘
	Yudu	水痘子, 水好事
Huizhou	Jixi	水痘
Jin	Taiyuan	水痘
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	水痘
Southern Min	Xiamen	水珠
	Quanzhou	水珠
	Zhangzhou	水珠
	Tainan	水珠
	Shantou	水痘
Puxian Min	Putian	水珠
	Xianyou	水珠
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	水痘
Wu	Shanghai	水赤痘, 水痘
	Suzhou	水痘
	Danyang	水痘痘
	Ningbo	水痘
	Wenzhou	野寶, 水寶
	Jinhua	水痘
Xiang	Changsha	水痘子
	Loudi	水痘

• (papule): 丘疹 (qiūzhěn)

Derived terms

• 出水珠

 

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “水珠”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 605.