游乾水
Chinese
to walk; to tour; to roam to walk; to tour; to roam; to swim; to travel |
dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname |
water; river | ||
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trad. (游乾水) | 游 | 乾 | 水 | |
simp. (游干水) | 游 | 干 | 水 | |
Literally: “dry swimming”. |
Etymology
Likely due to the similarity in arm movement between shuffling mahjong tiles and swimming.
Pronunciation
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 打麻將 (“to play mahjong”) [map]
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