食力
Chinese
eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed |
power; force; strength | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (食力) | 食 | 力 | |
| simp. #(食力) | 食 | 力 | |
| alternative forms | 噍力 Min Nan 吃力 Min Nan | ||
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): sik6 lik6
- Hakka (Changting, Changting Pinyin): shï5 di5
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): si̍t-la̍t / chia̍h-la̍t
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
- Hanyu Pinyin: shílì
- Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄌㄧˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: shíhlì
- Wade–Giles: shih2-li4
- Yale: shŕ-lì
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyrlih
- Palladius: шили (šili)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ li⁵¹/
- Homophones:
[Show/Hide] 實例 / 实例
實力 / 实力
- (Standard Chinese)
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: sik6 lik6
- Yale: sihk lihk
- Cantonese Pinyin: sik9 lik9
- Guangdong Romanization: xig6 lig6
- Sinological IPA (key): /sɪk̚² lɪk̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Changting)
- Changting Pinyin: shï5 di5
- Sinological IPA: /ʃʐ̩²¹ ti²¹/
- (Changting)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍t-la̍t
- Tâi-lô: si̍t-la̍t
- Phofsit Daibuun: sidlat
- IPA (Xiamen): /sit̚⁴⁻³² lat̚⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-la̍t
- Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-la̍t
- Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqlat
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ lat̚⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ lat̚⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
Note:
- si̍t-la̍t - “to live off labor”;
- chia̍h-la̍t - “to sustain physical pressure”.
Verb
食力
- (literary or Xiamen Hokkien) to live off labor
- (literary) to live off taxes
- (Cantonese and Taiwanese Hokkien) to sustain physical pressure or impact
- 然而拖鞋不咬地容易跣，所以煞掣時未必食力，隨時出事 [Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2017 August 4, 劉永明 and 翁鈺輝, 釀4車相撞17傷 人字拖司機被捕
- jin4 ji4 to1 haai4-2 bat1 ngaau5 dei6 jung4 ji6 sin3, so2 ji5 saat3 zai3 si4 mei6 bit1 sik6 lik6, ceoi4 si4 ceot1 si6 [Jyutping]
- but slippers don't grip onto the floor, making it easy to slip, so when braking, it may not be able to sustain the impact and an accident may happen any time
然而拖鞋不咬地容易跣，所以煞掣时未必食力，随时出事 [Cantonese, simp.]
- (Changting Hakka) to be responsive and effective under force (of tools)
Noun
食力
Pronunciation 2
- Hakka (Changting, Changting Pinyin): shï5 di5
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chia̍h-la̍t / chǎ-la̍t
- Hakka
- (Changting)
- Changting Pinyin: shï5 di5
- Sinological IPA: /ʃʐ̩²¹ ti²¹/
- (Changting)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Philippines, Singapore)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-la̍t
- Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-la̍t
- Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqlat
- IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /t͡sia(ʔ)²⁴⁻² lat̚²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sia(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ lat̚¹²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ lat̚⁴/
- IPA (Singapore): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴³⁻²¹ lat̚⁴³/
- IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ lat̚⁴/
- (Hokkien: Longyan)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chǎ-la̍t
- Tâi-lô: tsǎ-la̍t
- IPA (Longyan): /t͡sa⁵³⁻¹¹ lat̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Philippines, Singapore)
Verb
食力
- (Hokkien, Puxian Min, Changting Hakka) to involve much effort; to be a strain; to be exhausting
Synonyms
Derived terms
- 食力無好看 / 食力无好看
- 食力牛
Adverb
食力
Descendants
References
- 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “食力”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 584.