討飯

Chinese

		ask for; send punitive expedition; to demand ask for; send punitive expedition; to demand; to marry	food; cuisine; cooked rice food; cuisine; cooked rice; meal
trad. (討飯)		討	飯
simp. (讨饭)		讨	饭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǎofàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠˇ ㄈㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou² faan⁶
• Gan (Wiktionary): tau³ fan⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thó-fan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǎofàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠˇ ㄈㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǎofàn
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao³-fan⁴
    • Yale: tǎu-fàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taofann
    • Palladius: таофань (taofanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ fän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou² faan⁶
    • Yale: tóu faahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou² faan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou² fan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯³⁵ faːn²²/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: tau³ fan⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰau²¹³⁻²⁴ fan¹¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thó-fan
    • Hakka Romanization System: to` fan
    • Hagfa Pinyim: to³ fan⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰo³¹ fan⁵⁵/

Verb

討飯

1. to beg for food

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 要飯 (“to beg for food”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		乞食
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		討飯, 要飯
Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	要飯
	Xi'an	要飯
	Wuhan	討米
Cantonese	Guangzhou	乞食
	Hong Kong	乞食
	Taishan	乞米
	Kaiping (Chikan)	乞米
Gan	Nanchang	討飯
Hakka	Meixian	討食
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	乞食, 討食
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	乞食, 討食
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	乞食, 討食
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	乞食, 討食
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	乞食, 討食
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	乞食, 討食
Huizhou	Jixi	討飯
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	討食
Southern Min	Xiamen	討食
	Quanzhou	討食
	Zhangzhou	討食
	Jieyang	討食
	Leizhou	討米
Wu	Shanghai	討飯
	Wenzhou	討飯, 搝米
	Jinhua	討飯
Xiang	Changsha	討米
	Loudi	討米