一樣米養百樣人
Chinese edit
one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.) |
manner; pattern; way manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape |
rice; metre | give birth; keep (pets); to support give birth; keep (pets); to support; to bring sb. up; to raise (pig, etc.) |
hundred | manner; pattern; way manner; pattern; way; appearance; shape |
man; person; people | ||
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| trad. (一樣米養百樣人) | 一 | 樣 | 米 | 養 | 百 | 樣 | 人 | |
| simp. (一样米养百样人) | 一 | 样 | 米 | 养 | 百 | 样 | 人 | |
| Literally: “One kind of rice provides for one hundred kinds of people.” | ||||||||
Pronunciation edit
Proverb edit
一樣米養百樣人
- Everybody thinks and acts a little differently even when we are in the same environment
Synonyms edit
Dialectal synonyms of 一樣米養百樣人 (“Everybody thinks and acts a little differently.”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 一樣米養百樣人 | |
| Mandarin | Taiwan | 一樣米養百樣人 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 一樣米養百樣人 |
| Hong Kong | 一樣米養百樣人 | |
| Hakka | Meixian | 一樣飯供百樣人 |
| Xingning | 一樣米養百樣人 | |
| Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua) | 一樣米食出百樣人 | |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 一樣飯供百樣人 | |
| Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 一樣飯供百樣人, 一樣米養百樣人 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 一樣飯供百樣人 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 一樣飯畜百樣人 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 一樣飯供百樣人 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 一樣米供百樣人 | |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 一樣米飼百樣儂, 一樣米飼百樣儂，一樣雞啄百樣蟲, 一款米飼百樣儂, 一樣米粟飼百樣儂, 一樣米食百號儂 |
| Quanzhou | 一樣米飼百樣儂 | |
| Zhangzhou | 一樣米飼百樣儂, 一樣米食百樣儂 | |