潲水

shàoshuǐ
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 swill; kitchen slops (fed to pigs)

Examples

HSK 5
Yǐqián nóngcūn chángcháng yòng shàoshuǐ wèi zhū.
In the past, people in the countryside often fed their pigs on kitchen slops.
HSK 5
Cānguǎn de shàoshuǐ yào jiāogěi zhuānmén de gōngsī chǔlǐ, bù néng suíbiàn dàodiào.
Restaurants have to hand their swill over to a specialist company; they can't just pour it away.

Tips

register
潲水 is the southern word, used in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and Sichuan. The standard word is 泔水.
culture
Oil illegally skimmed from restaurant swill and drains and resold for cooking is called 地沟油, "gutter oil", a long-running food-safety scandal in China.

Stroke Order

潲 shào
水 shuǐ