饜足

饜足

Chinese

		eat to the full	foot; to be sufficient
trad. (饜足)		饜	足
simp. (餍足)		餍	足

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yànzú

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˋ ㄗㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jim³ zuk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yànzú
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ ㄗㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yànzú
    • Wade–Giles: yen⁴-tsu²
    • Yale: yàn-dzú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yanntzwu
    • Palladius: яньцзу (janʹczu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵¹ t͡su³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jim³ zuk¹
    • Yale: yim jūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jim³ dzuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yim³ zug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːm³³ t͡sʊk̚⁵/

Verb

饜足

1. (literary) to satisfy; to make content

   • 暴君治下的臣民，大抵比暴君更暴；暴君的暴政，時常還不能饜足暴君治下的臣民的欲望。 [MSC, trad.]
     暴君治下的臣民，大抵比暴君更暴；暴君的暴政，时常还不能餍足暴君治下的臣民的欲望。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1919, Lu Xun (魯迅), A Tyrant's Subjects (《暴君的臣民》)

     Bàojūn zhìxià de chénmín, dàdǐ bǐ bàojūn gèng bào; bàojūn de bàozhèng, shícháng hái bùnéng yànzú bàojūn zhìxià de chénmín de yùwàng. [Pinyin]

     The subjects under the tyrant can often be more tyrannical than their ruler. From time to time, the tyrant's tyranny fails to satisfy the subjects' appetite.

2. (literary) to be full after eating

Synonyms

• (to be satisfied):

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Synonyms of 饜足

中意 (zhòngyì) 合心 (héxīn) 合意 (héyì) 如意 (rúyì) 心甘 (xīngān) 甘心 (gānxīn) (usually in the negative)

滿／满 (mǎn) 滿意／满意 (mǎnyì) 滿足／满足 (mǎnzú) 稱心／称心 (chènxīn) 順心／顺心 (shùnxīn) (literary) 飽足／饱足 (bǎozú) (literary)