See 順水推舟 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "顺水推舟",
"tags": [
"Simplified-Chinese"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "idiom"
},
"expansion": "順水推舟",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "to push the boat along the current",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Cantonese chengyu",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese chengyu",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hokkien chengyu",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin chengyu",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Teochew chengyu",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to do something with the prevailing climate or tendency; to take advantage of the situation"
],
"id": "en-順水推舟-zh-phrase-VpeK1V4y",
"links": [
[
"do",
"do"
],
[
"prevailing",
"prevailing"
],
[
"climate",
"climate"
],
[
"tendency",
"tendency"
],
[
"take advantage",
"take advantage"
],
[
"situation",
"situation"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"formal",
"Standard-Chinese"
],
"word": "順水推舟"
},
{
"tags": [
"formal",
"Standard-Chinese"
],
"word": "順水推船"
},
{
"tags": [
"formal",
"Standard-Chinese"
],
"word": "順水行舟"
},
{
"tags": [
"Beijing"
],
"word": "順水推船兒"
},
{
"tags": [
"Beijing"
],
"word": "推順水船兒"
},
{
"tags": [
"Taiwan"
],
"word": "順水推舟"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou"
],
"word": "順風使𢃇"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Hong-Kong"
],
"word": "順水推舟"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Meixian"
],
"word": "順風使舵"
},
{
"tags": [
"Xiamen"
],
"word": "順水推舟"
},
{
"tags": [
"Xiamen"
],
"word": "順風捒倒牆"
},
{
"tags": [
"Quanzhou"
],
"word": "順風捒倒牆"
},
{
"tags": [
"Zhangzhou"
],
"word": "順風捒倒牆"
},
{
"word": "順風使舵"
},
{
"word": "順水推船"
},
{
"word": "順水行舟"
},
{
"word": "Beijing"
},
{
"word": "順水推船兒"
},
{
"word": "推順水船兒"
},
{
"word": "Taiwan"
},
{
"word": "Guangzhou"
},
{
"word": "順風使𢃇"
},
{
"word": "Hong Kong"
},
{
"word": "Meixian"
},
{
"word": "Xiamen"
},
{
"word": "順風捒倒牆"
},
{
"word": "Quanzhou"
},
{
"word": "Zhangzhou"
},
{
"word": "Shantou"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "shùnshuǐtuīzhōu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄕㄨㄣˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄊㄨㄟ ㄓㄡ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "seon⁶ seoi² teoi¹ zau¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-chúi-thui-chiu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-chúi-chhui-chiu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Teochew",
"Peng'im"
],
"zh_pron": "sung⁶ zui² tui¹ ziu¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "shùnshuǐtuīzhōu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄕㄨㄣˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄊㄨㄟ ㄓㄡ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "shùnshuěitueijhou"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh_pron": "shun⁴-shui³-tʻui¹-chou¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "shwùn-shwěi-twēi-jōu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
],
"zh_pron": "shuennshoeitueijou"
},
{
"roman": "šunʹšujtujčžou",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
"zh_pron": "шуньшуйтуйчжоу"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʂu̯ən⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "seon⁶ seoi² teoi¹ zau¹"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "seuhn séui tēui jāu"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "soen⁶ soey² toey¹ dzau¹"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "sên⁶ sêu² têu¹ zeo¹"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɵn²² sɵy̯³⁵ tʰɵy̯⁵⁵ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/",
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Xiamen",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-chúi-thui-chiu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Xiamen",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-tsuí-thui-tsiu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Xiamen",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh_pron": "suxnzuy'tuiciw"
},
{
"ipa": "/sun²²⁻²¹ t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰui⁴⁴⁻²² t͡siu⁴⁴/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Xiamen",
"IPA"
]
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"General Taiwanese"
],
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-chúi-chhui-chiu"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"General Taiwanese"
],
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-tsuí-tshui-tsiu"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"General Taiwanese"
],
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh_pron": "suxnzuyzhuiciw"
},
{
"ipa": "/sun³³⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰui⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siu⁴⁴/",
"raw_tags": [
"General Taiwanese"
],
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sun³³⁻²¹ t͡sui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰui⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siu⁴⁴/",
"raw_tags": [
"General Taiwanese"
],
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Kaohsiung"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Teochew",
"Peng'im"
],
"zh_pron": "sung⁶ zui² tui¹ ziu¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Teochew",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "sŭng tsúi thui tsiu"
},
{
"ipa": "/suŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵²⁻³⁵ tʰui³³⁻²³ t͡siu³³/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Teochew",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
}
],
"word": "順水推舟"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "顺水推舟",
"tags": [
"Simplified-Chinese"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "idiom"
},
"expansion": "順水推舟",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "to push the boat along the current",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Cantonese chengyu",
"Cantonese idioms",
"Cantonese lemmas",
"Chinese chengyu",
"Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"Chinese idioms",
"Chinese lemmas",
"Chinese terms spelled with 推",
"Chinese terms spelled with 水",
"Chinese terms spelled with 舟",
"Chinese terms spelled with 順",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Hokkien chengyu",
"Hokkien idioms",
"Hokkien lemmas",
"Mandarin chengyu",
"Mandarin idioms",
"Mandarin lemmas",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Teochew chengyu",
"Teochew idioms",
"Teochew lemmas"
],
"glosses": [
"to do something with the prevailing climate or tendency; to take advantage of the situation"
],
"links": [
[
"do",
"do"
],
[
"prevailing",
"prevailing"
],
[
"climate",
"climate"
],
[
"tendency",
"tendency"
],
[
"take advantage",
"take advantage"
],
[
"situation",
"situation"
]
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "shùnshuǐtuīzhōu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄕㄨㄣˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄊㄨㄟ ㄓㄡ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "seon⁶ seoi² teoi¹ zau¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-chúi-thui-chiu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-chúi-chhui-chiu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Teochew",
"Peng'im"
],
"zh_pron": "sung⁶ zui² tui¹ ziu¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "shùnshuǐtuīzhōu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄕㄨㄣˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄊㄨㄟ ㄓㄡ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "shùnshuěitueijhou"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh_pron": "shun⁴-shui³-tʻui¹-chou¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "shwùn-shwěi-twēi-jōu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
],
"zh_pron": "shuennshoeitueijou"
},
{
"roman": "šunʹšujtujčžou",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
"zh_pron": "шуньшуйтуйчжоу"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʂu̯ən⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "seon⁶ seoi² teoi¹ zau¹"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "seuhn séui tēui jāu"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "soen⁶ soey² toey¹ dzau¹"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "sên⁶ sêu² têu¹ zeo¹"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɵn²² sɵy̯³⁵ tʰɵy̯⁵⁵ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/",
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Xiamen",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-chúi-thui-chiu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Xiamen",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-tsuí-thui-tsiu"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Xiamen",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh_pron": "suxnzuy'tuiciw"
},
{
"ipa": "/sun²²⁻²¹ t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰui⁴⁴⁻²² t͡siu⁴⁴/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Xiamen",
"IPA"
]
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"General Taiwanese"
],
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-chúi-chhui-chiu"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"General Taiwanese"
],
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh_pron": "sūn-tsuí-tshui-tsiu"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"General Taiwanese"
],
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh_pron": "suxnzuyzhuiciw"
},
{
"ipa": "/sun³³⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰui⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siu⁴⁴/",
"raw_tags": [
"General Taiwanese"
],
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sun³³⁻²¹ t͡sui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰui⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siu⁴⁴/",
"raw_tags": [
"General Taiwanese"
],
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Kaohsiung"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Teochew",
"Peng'im"
],
"zh_pron": "sung⁶ zui² tui¹ ziu¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Teochew",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "sŭng tsúi thui tsiu"
},
{
"ipa": "/suŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵²⁻³⁵ tʰui³³⁻²³ t͡siu³³/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Teochew",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"formal",
"Standard-Chinese"
],
"word": "順水推舟"
},
{
"tags": [
"formal",
"Standard-Chinese"
],
"word": "順水推船"
},
{
"tags": [
"formal",
"Standard-Chinese"
],
"word": "順水行舟"
},
{
"tags": [
"Beijing"
],
"word": "順水推船兒"
},
{
"tags": [
"Beijing"
],
"word": "推順水船兒"
},
{
"tags": [
"Taiwan"
],
"word": "順水推舟"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou"
],
"word": "順風使𢃇"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Hong-Kong"
],
"word": "順水推舟"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Meixian"
],
"word": "順風使舵"
},
{
"tags": [
"Xiamen"
],
"word": "順水推舟"
},
{
"tags": [
"Xiamen"
],
"word": "順風捒倒牆"
},
{
"tags": [
"Quanzhou"
],
"word": "順風捒倒牆"
},
{
"tags": [
"Zhangzhou"
],
"word": "順風捒倒牆"
},
{
"word": "順風使舵"
},
{
"word": "順水推船"
},
{
"word": "順水行舟"
},
{
"word": "Beijing"
},
{
"word": "順水推船兒"
},
{
"word": "推順水船兒"
},
{
"word": "Taiwan"
},
{
"word": "Guangzhou"
},
{
"word": "順風使𢃇"
},
{
"word": "Hong Kong"
},
{
"word": "Meixian"
},
{
"word": "順風使舵"
},
{
"word": "Xiamen"
},
{
"word": "順風捒倒牆"
},
{
"word": "Quanzhou"
},
{
"word": "Zhangzhou"
},
{
"word": "Shantou"
}
],
"word": "順水推舟"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 順水推舟 meaning in Chinese (5.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (99a4ed9 and 3c020d2). 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.