水鱉子

Chinese

		water; river	turtle	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (水鱉子/水鼈子)		水	鱉/鼈	子
simp. (水鳖子)		水	鳖	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuǐbiēzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄅㄧㄝ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi² bit³ zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuǐbiēzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄅㄧㄝ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuěibiezi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: shui³-pieh¹-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: shwěi-byē-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoeibie.tzy
    • Palladius: шуйбецзы (šujbeczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pi̯ɛ⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi² bit³ zi²
    • Yale: séui bit jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey² bit⁸ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu² bid³ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³⁵ piːt̚³ t͡siː³⁵/

Noun

水鱉子

1. apus
2. (Muping Mandarin) hot water bottle

Synonyms

• (apus): 鱟蟲／鲎虫
• (hot water bottle):

Dialectal synonyms of 湯壺 (“hot water bottle”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		湯壺, 暖壺
Mandarin	Harbin	水鱉
	Yantai (Muping)	水鱉子
	Jinan	熨壺, 燙壺
	Luoyang	湯壺, 暖壺
	Xi'an	暖壺
	Xining	湯婆子, 湯瓶
	Chengdu	湯婆子, 燙壺
	Guiyang	湯婆子
	Liuzhou	湯婆子, 湯壺
	Yangzhou	湯壺, 湯捂子
	Nanjing	湯壺
Cantonese	Guangzhou	暖婆
Gan	Nanchang	湯婆子
	Lichuan	湯婆
	Pingxiang	暖壺
Hakka	Meixian	暖壺
	Yudu	暖壺
Jin	Taiyuan	水鱉兒
Northern Min	Jian'ou	湯壺
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	湯壺
Southern Min	Xiamen	燒水壺, 水鱉, 水龜
	Quanzhou	水龜
	Zhangzhou	水龜
Wu	Shanghai	湯婆子
	Shanghai (Chongming)	湯婆子
	Suzhou	湯婆子
	Danyang	湯婆子, 燙婆子
	Hangzhou	湯婆子
	Wenzhou	湯壺
	Jinhua	湯壺
Xiang	Changsha	湯壺人
	Loudi	湯婆子, 燙壺