做食

Chinese

		to do; to make; to produce	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed
trad. (做食)		做	食
simp. ^#(做食)		做	食

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zo⁴ siah⁷ / zo⁴ sia²

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zo⁴ siah⁷ [Phonetic: zo¹ liah⁷]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ceo̍-sia̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡so⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(ɬ-)liæʔ⁴/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zo⁴ sia² [Phonetic: zo¹ lia²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡so⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(ɬ-)lia²⁴/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zo⁴ siah⁷ [Phonetic: zo¹ siah⁷]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ceo̍-sia̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡so⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ɬiæʔ⁴/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zo⁴ sia² [Phonetic: zo¹ sia²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡so⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ɬia²⁴/

Note:

assimilated - sense 1;
unassimilated - sense 2;.

Verb

做⫽食 (verb-object)

(Puxian Min) to scrape a meager living; to get by with difficulty; to eke out a livelihood
(Puxian Min) to get some food; to prepare for food

Synonyms

(to scrape a living):

尋食 / 寻食 (Hakka)
就食 (jiùshí) (literary)
度三頓 / 度三顿 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien, with difficulty)
度喙飽 / 度喙饱 (Hokkien, with difficulty)
度食 (Hokkien)
搵食 / 揾食 (wan² sik⁶) (Cantonese)
混飯吃 / 混饭吃 (hùnfànchī) (colloquial)
營生 / 营生 (yíngshēng)
糊口 (húkǒu)
糊嘴 (húzuǐ) (dated)
討生活 / 讨生活 (tǎoshēnghuó)
討食 / 讨食
謀生 / 谋生 (móushēng)
賺食 / 赚食 (Hakka, Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
趁食 (Min)
過活 / 过活 (guòhuó)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “做食”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, pages 595, 596.