泉水

Chinese

		fountain; spring	water; river
simp. and trad. (泉水)		泉	水
anagram		水泉

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	泉	水
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	疾緣切	式軌切
Baxter	dzjwen	sywijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziuᴇn/	/ɕˠiuɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zʷiɛn/	/ɕʷᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zjuæn/	/ɕiuɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zwian/	/ɕjwiX/
Li Rong	/d͡ziuɛn/	/ɕjuiX/
Wang Li	/d͡zĭwɛn/	/ɕwiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱi̯wɛn/	/ɕwiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	quán	shuǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cyun4	seoi2

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	泉	水
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	quán	shuǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ dzjwen ›	‹ sywijX ›
Old Chinese	/*s-N-ɢʷar/ (MC I!)	/*s.turʔ/ (E dialect: *-r > *-j)
English	spring, source	water; river
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	泉	水
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	10728	11948
Phonetic component	泉	水
Rime group	元	脂
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	全	水
Old Chinese	/*sɡʷen/	/*qʰʷljilʔ/

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): quánshuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): quan² sui³

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun⁴ seoi²
• Gan (Wiktionary): 'qyon² sui³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chhièn-súi

  (Meixian, Guangdong): can² sui³

• Jin (Wiktionary): qye¹ sui²
• Eastern Min (BUC): ciòng-cūi
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chôaⁿ-chúi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zuan⁵ zui²

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zhi-sy
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): zienn² xyei³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: quánshuǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyuánshuěi
    • Wade–Giles: chʻüan²-shui³
    • Yale: chywán-shwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuanshoei
    • Palladius: цюаньшуй (cjuanʹšuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: quan² sui³
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: kuansui
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰyan²¹ suei⁵³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun⁴ seoi²
    • Yale: chyùhn séui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn⁴ soey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun⁴ sêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn²¹ sɵy̯³⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: 'qyon² sui³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˈt͡ɕʰyɵn²⁴ sui²¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhièn-súi
    • Hakka Romanization System: qien^ˇ sui^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qian² sui³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰi̯en¹¹ su̯i³¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: can² sui³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰan¹¹ suɪ³¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: qye¹ sui²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /t͡ɕʰye¹¹ suei⁵³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ciòng-cūi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡suoŋ⁵³⁻³³ ^(t͡s-)ʒui³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chôaⁿ-chúi
    • Tâi-lô: tsuânn-tsuí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zvoazuie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡suã²⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡suã²⁴⁻²² t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡suã¹³⁻²² t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡suã²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡suã²³⁻³³ t͡sui⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zuan⁵ zui²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsuâⁿ tsúi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sũã⁵⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sui⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zhi-sy
    • MiniDict: zhi^去 sy
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³xxi-sr
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ʑi²² sz̩⁴⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: zienn² xyei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /t͡si̯ẽ¹³ ɕy̯e̞i̯⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /t͡ɕi̯ẽ¹³ ɕy̯e̞i̯⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dzjwen sywijX

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-N-ɢʷar  s.turʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɡʷen  qʰʷljilʔ/

Noun

泉水

1. springwater

   • 相彼泉水，載清載濁。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     相彼泉水，载清载浊。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Xiàng bǐ quánshuǐ, zǎi qīng zǎi zhuó. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

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• 水泉 (shuǐquán) (literary or Min Nan)
• 泉 (quán) (literary, or in compounds)

 

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		泉水
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		泉水
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	泉水, 泉子水
	Singapore	泉水
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	泉水
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	泉水
	Xining	泉水
	Xuzhou	泉水
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	泉水
	Ürümqi	泉水
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	泉水
	Wuhan	泉水
	Guiyang	泉水
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	泉水
	Yangzhou	泉水
Gan	Nanchang	泉水
	Lichuan	泉水
	Pingxiang	泉水
Hakka	Meixian	泉水
Huizhou	Jixi	泉水
Jin	Taiyuan	泉水
	Xinzhou	泉水
	Liangcheng	泉水
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	泉水
Southern Min	Haikou	泉水
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	泉水
Wu	Shanghai	泉水
	Shanghai (Chongming)	泉水
	Danyang	泉水
	Hangzhou	泉水
	Ningbo	泉水
Xiang	Changsha	泉水

Dialectal synonyms of 泉水 (“springwater”) [map]

Derived terms

• 泉水河 (Quánshuǐhé)

 

See also

• 飲用水／饮用水 (yǐnyòngshuǐ)
• 淡水 (dànshuǐ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
泉	水
いずみ Grade: 6	Grade: 1
kun'yomi	irregular

Proper noun

泉(いずみ)水 • (Izumi) 

1. a surname