度喙飽
Chinese
| capacity; degree; standard | beak; to pant | to eat till full; satisfied | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (度喙飽) | 度 | 喙 | 飽 | |
| simp. (度喙饱) | 度 | 喙 | 饱 | |
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tō͘-chhùi-pá
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tō͘-chhùi-pá
- Tâi-lô: tōo-tshuì-pá
- Phofsit Daibuun: doxzhuie'par
- IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tɔ²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰui²¹⁻⁵³ pa⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ⁴¹⁻²² t͡sʰui⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ pa⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
Verb
度喙飽
- (Southern Min) to scrape a meager living; to get by with difficulty; to eke out a livelihood
Synonyms
- 做食 (Puxian Min)
- 尋食 / 寻食 (Hakka)
- 就食 (jiùshí) (literary)
- 度三頓 / 度三顿 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou 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)