止枵

Chinese

		to stop; prohibit; till	empty; hollow of a tree
simp. and trad. (止枵)		止	枵

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zi³ ieo¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chí-iau

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³ ieo¹ [Phonetic: zi⁵ ieo¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cî-a̤u
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ieu⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zi³ ieo¹ [Phonetic: zi⁵ ieo¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si³³²⁻²¹ ieu⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chí-iau
  - Tâi-lô: tsí-iau
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cyiaw
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡si⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iau⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡si⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ iau⁴⁴/

Verb

止⫽枵 (verb-object)

(Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Puxian Min) to appease one's hunger

Synonyms

充飢／充饥 (chōngjī)
解飢／解饥
(Hokkien) 止飢／止饥, 治枵

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “止枵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 577.