流水

Chinese

	to flow; to spread; to circulate to flow; to spread; to circulate; to move	water; river
trad. (流水)	流	水
simp. ^#(流水)	流	水
anagram	水流

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): liúshuǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴ seoi²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): liù-súi
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lâu-chúi / liû-súi / lâu-súi

(Teochew, Peng'im): liu⁵ zui²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liúshuǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lióushuěi
  - Wade–Giles: liu²-shui³
  - Yale: lyóu-shwěi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lioushoei
  - Palladius: люшуй (ljušuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lau⁴ seoi²
  - Yale: làuh séui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴ soey²
  - Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴ sêu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹ sɵy̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liù-súi
  - Hakka Romanization System: liu^ˇ sui^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: liu² sui³
  - Sinological IPA: /li̯u¹¹ su̯i³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâu-chúi
  - Tâi-lô: lâu-tsuí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lauzuie
  - IPA (Taipei): /lau²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lau¹³⁻²² t͡sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lau²³⁻³³ t͡sui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lau²⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lau²⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liû-súi
  - Tâi-lô: liû-suí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liusuie
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /liu²³⁻³³ sui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /liu²⁴⁻²² sui⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liu¹³⁻²² sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /liu²⁴⁻¹¹ sui⁵³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /liu²⁴⁻²² sui⁵³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâu-súi
  - Tâi-lô: lâu-suí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lausuie
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lau²³⁻³³ sui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lau²⁴⁻¹¹ sui⁵³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: liu⁵ zui²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: liû tsúi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /liu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵²/

Noun

流水

flowing water
(figurative) something flowing rapidly, continually or irreversibly like water
(figurative, business) turnover

Synonyms

(turnover): 營業額／营业额 (yíngyè'é)

Derived terms

付之流水
令行如流水
付諸流水／付诸流水
打了個落花流水／打了个落花流水
放流水標準／放流水标准
流水不腐，戶樞不蠹／流水不腐，户枢不蠹 (liúshuǐbùfǔ, hùshūbùdù)
流水作業／流水作业
流水對／流水对
流水席 (liúshuǐxí)
流水帳／流水帐 (liúshuǐzhàng)
流水序
流水板
流水無情／流水无情
流水簿子 (liúshuǐ bùzi)
流水線／流水线 (liúshuǐxiàn)
流水腰
流水落花
流水號／流水号 (liúshuǐhào)
流水行雲／流水行云 (liúshuǐxíngyún)
流水賬／流水账 (liúshuǐzhàng)
流水高山
滑流水
落花有意，流水無情／落花有意，流水无情 (luòhuā yǒuyì, liúshuǐ wúqíng)
落花流水 (luòhuāliúshuǐ)
行雲流水／行云流水 (xíngyúnliúshuǐ)
西皮流水
車如流水馬如龍／车如流水马如龙
高山流水 (gāoshānliúshuǐ)

Proper noun

流水

(～鎮) Liushui (a town in Yicheng, Xiangyang, Hubei, China)
(～鎮) Liushui (a town in Pingtan, Fuzhou, Fujian, China)