混飯吃

混飯吃

See also: 混饭吃

Chinese

		to work for a living	eat; eradicate; destroy eat; eradicate; destroy; receive; stammer
trad. (混飯吃)		混飯	吃
simp. (混饭吃)		混饭	吃

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hùnfànchī

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄈㄢˋ ㄔ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁶ faan⁶ hek³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: hùnfànchī
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄈㄢˋ ㄔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huennfannchy
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵¹⁻⁵³ fa̠n⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wan⁶ faan⁶ hek³
    • Yale: wahn faahn hek
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁶ faan⁶ hek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen⁶ fan⁶ hég³
    • IPA ^(key): /wɐn²² faːn²² hɛːk̚³/

Verb

混飯吃

1. (colloquial) to cook up a little food; to scrape a living
2. (colloquial) to eat at another person's expense

Synonyms

• (to scrape a living): 糊口 (húkǒu), 糊嘴 (húzuǐ), 過活／过活 (guòhuó), 謀生／谋生 (móushēng), 營生／营生 (yíngshēng); (Min Nan) 度食, 度喙飽／度喙饱, 度三頓／度三顿