The Chinese word for drain is
排水管
pái shuǐ guǎnChinese Definition
drain | |
1. 排水管,导管,排(水),排液,引流,排水沟 | |
Components | |
排 | |
1. to put in order | |
2. to rehearse | |
3. row; rank; line | |
4. raft | |
5. wood, bamboo, etc. bound together for transport along a river | |
6. (military) platoon | |
7. Short for 排球, volleyball | |
8. slab of meat | |
牛排 - steak | |
9. to push away; to reject | |
10. to eject; to emit; to excrete | |
11. (Cantonese) to queue | |
12. =====Usage notes===== | |
13. (Cantonese, only in compounds) time period | |
水 | |
1. water | |
請 給 我 一 杯 水,謝謝。 (Qǐng gěi wǒ yī bēi shuǐ, xièxiè.) - A glass of water, please. | |
喝水 - hēshuǐ - to drink water | |
冰水 - bīngshuǐ - iced water | |
冷水 - lěngshuǐ - cold water | |
凍水 - dung3 seoi2 - cold water, C | |
熱水 - rèshuǐ - hot water | |
開水 - kāishuǐ - boiled water | |
滾水 - gwan2 seoi2 - boiled water, C | |
水族館 - shuǐzúguǎn - aquarium | |
水彩 - shuǐcǎi - watercolour | |
水溫 - shuǐwēn - water temperature | |
雨水 - yǔshuǐ - rainwater | |
海水 - hǎishuǐ - seawater | |
飲用水 - yǐnyòngshuǐ - drinking water | |
礦泉水 - kuàngquánshuǐ - mineral water | |
蒸餾水 - zhēngliúshuǐ - distilled water | |
水閘 - shuǐzhá - sluice | |
水力發電 - shuǐlìfādiàn - hydroelectricity | |
碳水化合物 - tànshuǐhuàhéwù - carbohydrate | |
脫水 - tuōshuǐ - to dehydrate; dehydration | |
水中毒 - shuǐzhōngdú - water intoxication; water poisoning | |
雙氧水 - shuāngyǎngshuǐ, lit=water with two oxygen (atoms) - hydrogen peroxide | |
2. liquid; potion; juice | |
口水 - kǒushuǐ - saliva | |
汗水 - hànshuǐ - sweat | |
羊水 - yángshuǐ - amniotic fluid | |
香水 - xiāngshuǐ - perfume | |
眼藥水 - yǎnyàoshuǐ - eyedrop | |
3. (colloquial, mainly, Singapore, Malaysia) Synonym of 飲料 (beverage) | |
要 叫 什麼 水? (Yào jiào shénme shuǐ?) - What beverage do you want to order? | |
欲 叫 什sím物 水? (Beh kiò sím-mi̍h chúi?) - What beverage do you want to order?, MN | |
4. (archaic) river | |
^漢水 - Hànshuǐ - the Han River | |
5. body of water | |
水路 - shuǐlù - waterway | |
三 面 環 水 (sān miàn huán shuǐ) - to be surrounded by (bodies of) water on three sides | |
6. flood | |
發水 - fāshuǐ - to flood | |
7. additional cost or income | |
8. (dialectal) rain | |
9. (Cantonese) money | |
磅水 - bong6 seoi2 - to pay, C | |
掠loek6-1水 - loek6-1 seoi2 - to obtain money dishonestly, C | |
10. (Cantonese) hundred dollars | |
三 嚿 水 - saam1 gau6 seoi2 - three hundred dollars, C | |
11. (Cantonese) source of revenue | |
12. (Cantonese) to fool; to deceive; to misguide | |
13. to swim | |
水性 - shuǐxìng - swimming ability | |
14. (colloquial) lacking substance or power; worthless | |
這裡 的 大學 太 水 了。 (Zhèlǐ de dàxué tài shuǐ le.) - The universities here are too weak. | |
15. Short for 划水, gloss=to shirk; to slack off | |
16. one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行) | |
17. (colloquial) Classifier for the number of times clothing was washed. | |
18. Sui people | |
水書 - shuǐshū - Shuishu (the traditional writing system of the Sui people) | |
19. Variant of 媠 | |
管 | |
1. (musical instrument) a cylindrical double-reed woodwind instrument made of bamboo or wood | |
2. (musical instrument, by extension) any wind instrument | |
3. (by extension) slender tubular hollow object; pipe; tube; duct; canal; valve; fistula | |
吸管 - straw | |
4. (literary) calligraphy brush; inkbrush | |
5. to administer; to manage; to control; to be in charge | |
管理 - to manage | |
6. to subject someone to discipline; to discipline | |
7. to concern oneself with; to interfere with | |
8. to be responsible for the provision of; to provide; to supply | |
9. to assure; to guarantee; to ensure; to keep | |
10. despite; regardless of; irrespective of | |
11. (colloquial) (used in the pattern 管 is followed by the entity that is being called a name) | |
臺灣人 管 花生 也 叫 土豆。 - Taiwanese people also call peanuts 土豆. | |
12. (dialectal, colloquial) (indicates the object of an action:) to | |
13. (Sichuan) to be worth | |
^管 ^寧 - Guan Ning |
Translations for 管 and their definitions
排水 | |
1. v. (intransitive) to drain water |
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