"破水" meaning in Chinese

See 破水 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /pʰɔː³³ sɵy̯³⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /pʰua²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/ [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Xiamen], /pʰua⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/ [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Quanzhou], /pʰua²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/ [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Zhangzhou], /pʰua¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/ [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Taipei], /pʰua²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡sui⁴¹/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung, Min-Nan], /pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/, /pʰɔː³³ sɵy̯³⁵/, /pʰua²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/, /pʰua⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/, /pʰua²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/, /pʰua¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/, /pʰua²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡sui⁴¹/ Chinese transliterations: pòshuǐ [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄆㄛˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ [Mandarin, bopomofo], po³ seoi² [Cantonese, Jyutping], phòa-chúi, pòshuǐ [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄆㄛˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], pòshuěi [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], pʻo⁴-shui³ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], pwò-shwěi [Mandarin, Yale, standard], pohshoei [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], пошуй [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], pošuj [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], po séui [Cantonese, Yale], po³ soey² [Cantonese, Pinyin], po³ sêu² [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], phòa-chúi [Hokkien, Min-Nan, POJ], phuà-tsuí [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Tai-lo], phoarzuie [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Phofsit-Daibuun]
Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 破水
  1. (obstetrics) to break water; to have a rupture of membranes
    Sense id: en-破水-zh-verb-OEqx5Q-~ Categories (other): Obstetrics, Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 93 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6 Topics: medicine, obstetrics, sciences
  2. (Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Longyan Min, agriculture) to dig a gap along a field to drain the water Tags: Longyan-Min, Taiwanese-Hokkien, Zhangzhou
    Sense id: en-破水-zh-verb-uDM7A~Ul Categories (other): Longyan Min Chinese, Taiwanese Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien, Agriculture Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 高位破水
Synonyms: 破水 [formal, Standard-Chinese], 破水囊 [Cantonese, Guangzhou], 穿羊水 [Cantonese, Hong-Kong], 穿水 [Cantonese, Hong-Kong], 破水 [Jian'ou], 破水 [Zhangzhou], 破水, Guangzhou, 破水囊, Hong Kong, 穿羊水, 穿水, Jian'ou, Zhangzhou, Longyan
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      "zh-pron": "pʻo⁴-shui³"
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
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        "Xiamen"
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        "Quanzhou"
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        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Min-Nan"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
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      "ipa": "/pʰɔː³³ sɵy̯³⁵/"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/pʰua⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/"
    },
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      "ipa": "/pʰua²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/"
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      "ipa": "/pʰua¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/"
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      "zh-pron": "pʻo⁴-shui³"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Tai-lo"
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
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    {
      "ipa": "/pʰua²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/",
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Xiamen"
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    },
    {
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
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    {
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        "Min-Nan",
        "Taipei"
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        "Kaohsiung",
        "Min-Nan"
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    {
      "ipa": "/pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰɔː³³ sɵy̯³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰua²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰua⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰua²¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰua¹¹⁻⁵³ t͡sui⁵³/"
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    {
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}

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  "title": "破水",
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.