seoi2 faa1水花
Jyutpingseoi2 faa1
Yaleséui fā
Definition
Splash; small water droplets that fly up or spray from the surface of water.
colloquialnaturesports
How it's used
Primarily associated with diving competitions where the size of the splash determines the quality of the entry. Outside of sports, it is used to describe the spray created by objects hitting a liquid surface, such as a stone thrown into a pond or a vehicle driving through rain.
Examples
He dived beautifully with absolutely no splash.
The car drove through a puddle and splashed a lot of water.
Related words
Common phrases
to suppress the splash (in diving)
to splash water
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
