饜足
Chinese
| eat to the full | foot; to be sufficient | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (饜足) | 饜 | 足 | |
| simp. (餍足) | 餍 | 足 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: yànzú
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˋ ㄗㄨˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: yànzú
- Wade–Giles: yen4-tsu2
- Yale: yàn-dzú
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yanntzwu
- Palladius: яньцзу (janʹczu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /jɛn⁵¹ t͡su³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: jim3 zuk1
- Yale: yim jūk
- Cantonese Pinyin: jim3 dzuk7
- Guangdong Romanization: yim3 zug1
- Sinological IPA (key): /jiːm³³ t͡sʊk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
饜足
- (literary) to satisfy; to make content
- 暴君治下的臣民，大抵比暴君更暴；暴君的暴政，時常還不能饜足暴君治下的臣民的欲望。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1919, Lu Xun (魯迅), A Tyrant's Subjects (《暴君的臣民》)
- Bàojūn zhìxià de chénmín, dàdǐ bǐ bàojūn gèng bào; bàojūn de bàozhèng, shícháng hái bùnéng yànzú bàojūn zhìxià de chénmín de yùwàng. [Pinyin]
- The subjects under the tyrant can often be more tyrannical than their ruler. From time to time, the tyrant's tyranny fails to satisfy the subjects' appetite.
暴君治下的臣民，大抵比暴君更暴；暴君的暴政，时常还不能餍足暴君治下的臣民的欲望。 [MSC, simp.]
- (literary) to be full after eating
Synonyms
- (to be satisfied):