食蛇
Chinese
eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed |
snake; serpent | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (食蛇) | 食 | 蛇 | |
| simp. #(食蛇) | 食 | 蛇 | |
| Literally: “to eat snake”. | |||
Pronunciation
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien, POJ): chia̍h-chôa
- (Teochew, Peng'im): ziah8 zua5
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Penang, Singapore)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-chôa
- Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-tsuâ
- Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqzoaa
- IPA (Penang): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻³ t͡sua²³/
- IPA (Singapore): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴³⁻²¹ t͡sua²⁴/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: ziah8 zua5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsia̍h tsuâ
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡siaʔ⁴⁻² t͡sua⁵⁵/
- (Hokkien: Penang, Singapore)
Verb
食蛇
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 偷懶 (“to slack off; to lie down on the job”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 偷懶, 躲懶, 偷閒 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 躲懶兒, 偷懶兒, 脫懶兒 |
| Taiwan | 偷懶 | |
| Singapore | 偷懶 | |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 躲懶 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 躲懶, 隑懶 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 躲懶, 放蛇, 偷雞 |
| Hong Kong | 偷懶, 蛇王, 吞泡 | |
| Dongguan | 偷雞 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 偷懶 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 偷嫽 |
| Xingning | 偷嫽, 怠懶 | |
| Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua) | 偷嫽 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 偷懶 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 躲懶 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 想惰 |
| Zhangzhou | 想惰, 想死 | |
| Penang (Hokkien) | 食蛇 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 食蛇 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 偷懶 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Songjiang) | 迓皮, 躲迓避 |
| Suzhou | 偷私乖 | |
Descendants
- → English: chia chua, jiak zua (Singlish)
- → English: eat snake (calque) (Singlish)