度食
Chinese
| capacity; degree; standard | eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (度食) | 度 | 食 | |
| simp. #(度食) | 度 | 食 | |
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tō͘-chia̍h
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tō͘-chia̍h
- Tâi-lô: tōo-tsia̍h
- Phofsit Daibuun: doxciah
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ⁴¹⁻²² t͡siaʔ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ²²⁻²¹ t͡siaʔ¹²¹/
- IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²²⁻²¹ t͡siaʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
Verb
度食
- (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)
- 度喙飽 / 度喙饱 (Hokkien, with difficulty)
- 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)