小水しょうすい

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	water; river
simp. and trad. (小水しょうすい)		小しょう	水みず

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎoshuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄕㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu² seoi²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siáu-súi / sió-chúi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎoshuǐ [Phonetic: xiáoshuǐ] → xiǎoshui (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄕㄨㄟˇ → ㄒㄧㄠˇ ˙ㄕㄨㄟ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎoshue̊i
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-shui⁵
    • Yale: syǎu-shwei
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheau.shoei
    • Palladius: сяошуй (sjaošuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ → /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴ ʂu̯eɪ̯⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu² seoi²
    • Yale: síu séui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu² soey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu² sêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯³⁵ sɵy̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siáu-súi / sió-chúi
    • Tâi-lô: siáu-suí / sió-tsuí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siawsuie, sioyzuie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sui⁵³/, /sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siau⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ sui⁵⁵⁴/, /sio⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sui⁵³/, /sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ sui⁵³/, /sio⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sui⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ sui⁴¹/, /siɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sui⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: sjewX sywijX

Rime
Character	小しょう	水みず
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	心しん (16)	書しょ (26)
Final (韻いん)	宵よい (91)	脂あぶら (18)
Tone (調しらべ)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Closed
Division (等ひとし)	III	III
Fanqie	私わたし兆ちょう切きり	式しき軌切きり
Baxter	sjewX	sywijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siᴇuX/	/ɕˠiuɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/siɛuX/	/ɕʷᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/sjæuX/	/ɕiuɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siawX/	/ɕjwiX/
Li Rong	/siɛuX/	/ɕjuiX/
Wang Li	/sĭɛuX/	/ɕwiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ɛuX/	/ɕwiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiǎo	shuǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	siu2	seoi2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]ewʔ  s.turʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*smewʔ  qʰʷljilʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	小しょう	水みず
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiǎo	shuǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ sjewX ›	‹ sywijX ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ewʔ/	/*s.turʔ/ (E dialect: *-r > *-j)
English	small	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	小しょう	水みず
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	13705	11948
Phonetic component	小しょう	水みず
Rime group	宵よい	脂あぶら
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	小しょう	水みず
Old Chinese	/*smewʔ/	/*qʰʷljilʔ/
Notes	甲きのえ金きむ文ぶん象ぞう沙すな而指ゆび小しょう， 指ゆび事こと字じ

Noun

小水しょうすい

1. small flow of water
2. small flood
3. small pool
4. large closed lake
5. spring tides
6. urine

Japanese

Kanji in this term
小しょう	水みず
しょう Grade: 1	すい Grade: 1
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
少しょう水みず

Alternative forms

• お小しょう(しょう)水みず(すい) (o-shōsui)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しょーすい [shòósúí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ːsɨi]

Noun

小しょう(しょう)水みず(すい) • (shōsui) 

1. (euphemistic) urine

   Synonyms: 小便しょうべん, 尿にょう

   お小しょう(しょう)水みず(すい)を検けん(けん)査(さ)する

   o-shōsui o kensa suru

   to perform a urine test

2. small amount of water