要飯
Chinese
important; vital; to want important; vital; to want; to be going to; must; demand; ask; request; coerce |
food; cuisine; cooked rice food; cuisine; cooked rice; meal | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (要飯) | 要 | 飯 | |
| simp. (要饭) | 要 | 饭 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
- Hanyu Pinyin: yàofàn
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˋ ㄈㄢˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yàofàn
- Wade–Giles: yao4-fan4
- Yale: yàu-fàn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yawfann
- Palladius: яофань (jaofanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ fän⁵¹/
- Homophones:
[Show/Hide] 要犯
要飯 / 要饭
- (Standard Chinese)
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: jiu3 faan6
- Yale: yiu faahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: jiu3 faan6
- Guangdong Romanization: yiu3 fan6
- Sinological IPA (key): /jiːu̯³³ faːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
要⫽飯 (verb-object)
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 要飯 (“to beg for food”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Classical Chinese | 乞食 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 討飯, 要飯 | |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 要飯 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 要飯 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 討米 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 乞食 |
| Hong Kong | 乞食 | |
| Taishan | 乞米 | |
| Kaiping (Chikan) | 乞米 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 討飯 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 討食 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 乞食, 討食 | |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 討飯 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 討食 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 討食 |
| Quanzhou | 討食 | |
| Zhangzhou | 討食 | |
| Jieyang | 討食 | |
| Leizhou | 討米 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 討飯 |
| Wenzhou | 討飯, 搝米 | |
| Jinhua | 討飯 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 討米 |
| Loudi | 討米 | |