倚食

倚食

Chinese

		to lean on; rely upon	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed
simp. and trad. (倚食)		倚	食

Pronunciation

• Min Nan (POJ): óa-chia̍h

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• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: óa-chia̍h
    • Tâi-lô: uá-tsia̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oafciah
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ua⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡ɕiaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ua⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡ɕiaʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ua⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡ɕiaʔ¹²¹/

Verb

倚食

1. (Min Nan) to depend on someone for a living; to sponge off someone

Synonyms

• 寄食 (jìshí)