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): [ɸɯ̟kɯ̟sɨi]

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, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN