素餐

Chinese

		plain; element	eat; meal
trad. (素餐)		素	餐
simp. ^#(素餐)		素	餐

Etymology

From the Classic of Poetry, poem 112 (《詩經·魏風·伐檀》):

彼君子兮，不素餐兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Bǐ jūnzǐ xī, bù sùcān xī. [Pinyin]

O that superior man! He would not eat the bread of idleness!

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sùcān

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ ㄘㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sou³ caan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sùcān
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ ㄘㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sùcan
  - Wade–Giles: su⁴-tsʻan¹
  - Yale: sù-tsān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suhtsan
  - Palladius: суцань (sucanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹ t͡sʰän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sou³ caan¹
  - Yale: sou chāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sou³ tsaan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sou³ can¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sou̯³³ t͡sʰaːn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: suH tshan

Rime
Character	素	餐
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	桑故切	七安切
Baxter	suH	tshan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suo^H/	/t͡sʰɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/suo^H/	/t͡sʰɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/so^H/	/t͡sʰɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɔ^H/	/t͡sʰan/
Li Rong	/so^H/	/t͡sʰɑn/
Wang Li	/su^H/	/t͡sʰɑn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/suo^H/	/t͡sʰɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sù	cān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sou³	caan¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*saːs sʰaːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	素
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sù
Middle Chinese	‹ su^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ˁak-s/
English	white silk
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	素	餐
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12099	1117
Phonetic component	素	粲
Rime group	魚	元
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	訴	餐
Old Chinese	/*saːs/	/*sʰaːn/
Notes		聲符皆爲歺又

Verb

素餐

(literary) to eat without working
to maintain a vegetarian diet

Synonyms

(to maintain a vegetarian diet): 吃素 (chīsù)

Derived terms

尸位素餐 (shīwèisùcān)
尸利素餐 (shīlìsùcān)
尸祿素餐 (shīlùsùcān)
素餐尸位

Noun

素餐

vegetarian foods (Classifier: 頓／顿 m)

Synonyms

蔬食 (shūshí)
素食 (sùshí)