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
- Eastern Min (BUC): tō̤-siĕh
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien, POJ): thó-chia̍h
- (Teochew, Peng'im): to2 ziah8
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thó-sṳ̍t
- Hakka Romanization System: toˋ siid
- Hagfa Pinyim: to3 sid6
- Sinological IPA: /tʰo³¹ sɨt̚⁵/
- (Meixian)
- Guangdong: tau3 sed6
- Sinological IPA: /tʰau³¹ sət̚⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Eastern Min
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thó-chia̍h
- Tâi-lô: thó-tsia̍h
- Phofsit Daibuun: toyciah
- IPA (Xiamen): /tʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siaʔ⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡siaʔ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siaʔ¹²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /tʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siaʔ⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡siaʔ⁴/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: to2 ziah8
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thó tsia̍h
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰo⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡siaʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien)
Verb
討食
- (Southern Min, Eastern Min, Hakka) to beg for food
- (Southern Min, Taiwanese Hakka) to make a living
Synonyms
- (to beg for food):
Dialectal synonyms of 要飯 (“to beg for food”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Classical Chinese | 乞食 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 討飯, 要飯 | |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 要飯 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 要飯 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | 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 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 討食 |
| Southern Min | 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 | |
References
- “討食”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.