走水

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Chinese

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to walk; to go; to move
to walk; to go; to move; to leave
 
water; river
simp. and trad.
(走水)

Pronunciation 1

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Verb

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走水

  1. (of water) to flow
  2. to leak water
  3. (euphemistic) to catch on fire; to be on fire
  4. (obsolete) to swim
  5. (obsolete) to leave by boat
  6. (figurative, obsolete) to manage accounts
  7. (figurative, obsolete) to divulge secrets
  8. (figurative, dialectal) to travel around trading on one's own; to be an itinerant trader
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Noun

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走水

  1. running water

Pronunciation 2

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Note: Jieyang.

Verb

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走水

  1. (Teochew, of animals) to be in heat
  2. (Teochew) to smuggle
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