買水

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: bhoi2 zui2
POJ: bói-tsuí
Variety: chaozhou

verb: to symbolically buy water for washing the deceased (funeral custom)
買水

Highly specific funeral-ritual term whose exact Teochew usage and currency are hard to verify from the Wiktionary gloss alone.

Topics: lifestyle, religion