Taxonomy of meanings for 泄:
- 泄 yì (OC: lebs MC: jiɛi) 餘制切 去 廣韻:【水名在九江又音薛 】
- 泄 yì (OC: leds MC: jiɛi) 餘制切 去 廣韻:【同泄 】
- LEAK
- nabactleaking out secrets
- viprocessleak out
- vt+prep+Nfigurativeleak things to N
- vt+prep+Npassivebe leaked to
- vtoNfigurativeleak out (liquid); transferred: leak out (as words, news etc)
- vtoNpassiveget leaked, leak out (of liquids or words) (vi?? ???)
- vttoN1.+prep+N2leak N1 to N2
- viprocessto leak out (also used metaphorically)
- REDUCE
- vtoNto reduce
- ISSUE
- SELL
- FLEE
- ARRIVE
- SMALL
- DIARRHEA
- ILLNESSES
- MIXED
- SURNAMES
- = 褻
- LEAK
- 泄 xiè (OC: sled MC: siɛt) 私列切 入 廣韻:【漏泄也歇也亦作洩又姓左傳鄭大夫洩駕又餘制切 】
Additional information about 泄
說文解字:
- Criteria
- LEAK
1. The current standard word for liquids leaking out of some place in which they are contained is lòu 漏, and the word is commonly used causatively.
2. Xiè 泄 is also commonly used in figurative senses.
- Word relations
- Ant: (LEAK)祕 / 祕 / 密/SECRET
The current general word for something being kept secret from the general public, but it remaining accessible to an inner circle, is mì 密 (ant. míng 明 "openly, for everyone to see"). - Ant: (LEAK)匿/CONCEAL
Nì 匿 (ant. zhāng 章/彰 "make a display of") refers to the physical removal of things so as to make them inaccessible to others. - Assoc: (LEAK)漏/LEAK
- Synon: (LEAK)發/LEAK