汽水

Chinese

steam; vapor water; river
simp. and trad.
(汽水)
anagram 水汽

Pronunciation


Noun

汽水

  1. soft drink
  2. carbonated water; soda water
  3. brackish water

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 汽水 (“(carbonated) soft drink”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 軟性飲料軟飲料
Mandarin Beijing 汽水、荷蘭水-dated
Cantonese Guangzhou 汽水、荷蘭水-dated
Min Nan Taipei 荷蘭西水

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
すい
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Noun

汽水 (hiragana きすい, rōmaji kisui)

  1. brackish water, the mixture of river water and sea water around the mouth of a river.
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