討生活

討生活

Chinese

		ask for; send punitive expedition; to demand ask for; send punitive expedition; to demand; to marry	life; livelihood
trad. (討生活)		討	生活
simp. (讨生活)		讨	生活

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǎoshēnghuó

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠˇ ㄕㄥ ㄏㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou² sang¹ wut⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tǎoshēnghuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠˇ ㄕㄥ ㄏㄨㄛˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taoshenghwo
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǎoshenghuó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ xwɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou² sang¹ wut⁶
    • Yale: tóu sāng wuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou² sang¹ wut⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou² seng¹ wud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯³⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵ wuːt̚²/

Verb

討生活

1. to make a living
2. (Shanghai Wu) to need a beating

Synonyms

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度三頓／度三顿 (Min Nan) 度喙飽／度喙饱 (Min Nan) 度食 (Min Nan) 混飯吃／混饭吃 (hùnfànchī) (colloquial) 營生／营生 (yíngshēng)

糊口 (húkǒu) 糊嘴 (húzuǐ) (dated) 討食／讨食 謀生／谋生 (móushēng) 過活／过活 (guòhuó)

• (to need a beating):

Dialectal synonyms of 欠揍 (“to need a beating”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Mandarin	Taiwan	欠揍, 欠打
	Tianjin	欠揍
	Wanrong	欠打, 欠挨
	Xuzhou	欠揍
	Nantong	尋打, 討打
	Singapore	欠打, 欠扁
Cantonese	Hong Kong	五行欠打, 欠打, 五行欠抦
Min Nan	Xiamen	欠拍
	Quanzhou	欠拍
	Jinjiang	欠拍
	Zhangzhou	欠拍
	Kaohsiung	討皮疼
	Tainan	欠拍
	Taichung	欠拍
	Wuqi	欠推
	Hsinchu	欠舂
	Taitung	欠拍
	Lukang	欠拍
	Yilan	討肉疼
	Magong	欠拍
	Singapore (Hokkien)	欠拍
	Manila (Hokkien)	欠拍
Wu	Shanghai	討生活, 討打