壞水兒

Chinese

		bad; evil; rotten bad; evil; rotten; spoiled
trad. (壞水兒)		壞	水兒
simp. (坏水儿)		坏	水儿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàishuǐr

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄞˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇㄦ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàishuǐr
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄞˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàishuěir
    • Wade–Giles: huai⁴-shui³-ʼrh
    • Yale: hwài-shwěir
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huayshoel
    • Palladius: хуайшуйр (xuajšujr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯aɪ̯⁵¹ ʂu̯əɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

壞水兒

1. (Mandarin) Erhua form of 壞水／坏水 (huàishuǐ).

   他滿肚子都是壞水兒！ [MSC, trad.]
   他满肚子都是坏水儿！ [MSC, simp.]

   Tā mǎn dùzi dōu shì huàishuǐr! [Pinyin]

   His belly is full of malicious ideas!

2. (regional) strong acid, especially nitric acid

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 強酸 (“strong acid”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		強酸
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	壞水兒
Cantonese	Hong Kong	鏹水
Southern Min	Xiamen	葛力水

Dialectal synonyms of 硝酸 (“nitric acid”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		硝酸
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	壞水兒
	Taiwan	硝酸
	Harbin	壞水兒
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	硝鏹水
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	硝酸
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	硝酸
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	硝酸
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	硝酸
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	硝酸
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	硝酸
Southern Min	Xiamen	硝酸
Wu	Shanghai	硝鏹水