混飯吃
See also: 混饭吃
Chinese
| to work for a living | eat; eradicate; destroy eat; eradicate; destroy; receive; stammer | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (混飯吃) | 混飯 | 吃 | |
| simp. (混饭吃) | 混饭 | 吃 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: hùnfànchī
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄈㄢˋ ㄔ
- Tongyong Pinyin: hùnfànchih
- Wade–Giles: hun4-fan4-chʻih1
- Yale: hwùn-fàn-chr̄
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huennfannchy
- Palladius: хуньфаньчи (xunʹfanʹči)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xu̯ən⁵¹⁻⁵³ fän⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: wan6 faan6 hek3
- Yale: wahn faahn hek
- Cantonese Pinyin: wan6 faan6 hek8
- Guangdong Romanization: wen6 fan6 hég3
- Sinological IPA (key): /wɐn²² faːn²² hɛːk̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
混飯吃
- to earn a living with a perfunctory attitude or through improper means
- (colloquial) to engage in a job for making a living; to scrape a living
- (colloquial) to eat at another person's expense
Synonyms
- (to scrape a living):
- 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)
- 度食 (Hokkien)
- 搵食 / 揾食 (wan2 sik6) (Cantonese)
- 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)