覆水

Japanese

Kanji in this term
覆	水
ふく Grade: S	すい Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ふくすい [fùkúsúí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝkɯ̟ᵝsɨᵝi]

Noun

覆(ふく)水(すい) • (fukusui)

spilt water

Derived terms

覆水(ふくすい)盆(ぼん)に返(かえ)らず (fukusui bon ni kaerazu, “what's done is done, don't cry over spilt milk”, idiom, literally “spilt water doesn't return to the basin”)

References

Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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