食得鹹魚抵得渴
Chinese
eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed |
get; obtain; gain get; obtain; gain; proper; suitable; proud; contented; allow; permit; ready; finished; a sentence particle used after a verb to show effect; degree or possibility; to have to; must; ought to; to need to |
salted fish; zombie; corpse | to tolerate; to endure; to be worth | thirsty | ||
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| trad. (食得鹹魚抵得渴/食得咸魚抵得渴) | 食 | 得 | 鹹魚/咸魚 | 抵得 | 渴 | |
| simp. (食得咸鱼抵得渴) | 食 | 得 | 咸鱼 | 抵得 | 渴 | |
| Literally: “if one eats salted fish, one must be able to stand the thirst”. | ||||||
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: sik6 dak1 haam4 jyu4 dai2 dak1 hot3
- Yale: sihk dāk hàahm yùh dái dāk hot
- Cantonese Pinyin: sik9 dak7 haam4 jy4 dai2 dak7 hot8
- Guangdong Romanization: xig6 deg1 ham4 yu4 dei2 deg1 hod3
- Sinological IPA (key): /sɪk̚² tɐk̚⁵ haːm²¹ jyː²¹ tɐi̯³⁵ tɐk̚⁵ hɔːt̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Idiom
食得鹹魚抵得渴
- (Cantonese) to have to bear the consequences of one's actions or choices