食蕉

食蕉

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	banana
trad. (食蕉)		食	蕉
simp. #(食蕉)		食	蕉

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ ziu¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sik⁶ ziu¹
    • Yale: sihk jīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ dziu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ jiu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² t͡siːu̯⁵⁵/

Verb

食蕉

(Cantonese)

1. to eat a banana
2. (figuratively, vulgar) to perform oral sex
3. (figuratively, vulgar, derogatory) to go eat shit; to go to hell

   請你食蕉。 / 请你食蕉。 [Cantonese]  ―  Ceng² nei⁵ sik⁶ ziu¹. [Jyutping]  ―  Go fuck yourself. (literally, (I) invite you to have a banana.)

Etymology 2

Phono-semantic matching of English security.

Noun

食蕉

1. (Cantonese, humorous) security guard