討食

討食

Chinese

		ask for; send punitive expedition; to demand ask for; send punitive expedition; to demand; to marry	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed
trad. (討食)		討	食
simp. (讨食)		讨	食

Pronunciation

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): thó-sṳ̍t

  (Meixian, Guangdong): tau³ sed⁶

• Min Dong (BUC): tō̤-siĕh
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): thó-chia̍h

  (Teochew, Peng'im): to² ziah⁸

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• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thó-sṳ̍t
    • Hakka Romanization System: to` siid
    • Hagfa Pinyim: to³ sid⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰo³¹ sɨt̚⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: tau³ sed⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰau³¹ sət̚⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: tō̤-siĕh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰo³³⁻²¹ ^(s-)lieʔ⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó-chia̍h
    • Tâi-lô: thó-tsia̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: toyciah
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡ɕiaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡ɕiaʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡ɕiaʔ¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡ɕiaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡ɕiaʔ⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: to² ziah⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thó tsia̍h
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰo⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡siaʔ⁴/

Verb

討食

1. (Min Nan, Min Dong, Hakka) to beg for food
2. (Min Nan, Taiwanese Hakka) to make a living

Synonyms

• (to beg for food): (Min Nan) 分

Dialectal synonyms of 要飯 (“to beg for food”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		乞食
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		討飯, 要飯
Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	要飯
	Xi'an	要飯
	Wuhan	討米
Cantonese	Guangzhou	乞食
	Hong Kong	乞食
	Taishan	乞米
	Kaiping (Chikan)	乞米
Gan	Nanchang	討飯
Hakka	Meixian	討食
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	乞食, 討食
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	乞食, 討食
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	乞食, 討食
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	乞食, 討食
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	乞食, 討食
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	乞食, 討食
Huizhou	Jixi	討飯
Min Dong	Fuzhou	討食
Min Nan	Xiamen	討食
	Quanzhou	討食
	Zhangzhou	討食
	Jieyang	討食
	Leizhou	討米
Wu	Shanghai	討飯
	Wenzhou	討飯, 搝米
	Jinhua	討飯
Xiang	Changsha	討米
	Loudi	討米

• (to make a living): 謀生／谋生 (móushēng)

References

• “Entry #6756”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.