吃土

Chinese

		eat; eradicate; destroy eat; eradicate; destroy; receive; stammer	earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
simp. and trad. (吃土)		吃	土

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chītǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄔ ㄊㄨˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chītǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄔ ㄊㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chihtǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih¹-tʻu³
    • Yale: chr̄-tǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chytuu
    • Palladius: читу (čitu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Verb

吃⫽土 (verb-object)

1. (slang, intransitive, figurative) to be poor as a church mouse; to be very poor