度食

Chinese

		capacity; degree; standard	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed
trad. (度食)		度	食
simp. #(度食)		度	食

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tō͘-chia̍h

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tō͘-chia̍h
    • Tâi-lô: tōo-tsia̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: doxciah
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔ⁴¹⁻²² t͡siaʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔ²²⁻²¹ t͡siaʔ¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔ²²⁻²¹ t͡siaʔ⁴/

Verb

度食

1. (Southern Min) to scrape a meager living; to get by with difficulty; to eke out a livelihood

Synonyms

• 尋食／寻食 (Hakka)
• 就食 (jiùshí) (literary)
• 度三頓／度三顿 (Xiamen Hokkien, with difficulty, Zhangzhou Hokkien, with difficulty)
• 度喙飽／度喙饱 (Hokkien, with difficulty)
• 搵食／揾食 (wan² sik⁶) (Cantonese)
• 混飯吃／混饭吃 (hùnfànchī) (colloquial)
• 營生／营生 (yíngshēng)
• 糊口 (húkǒu)
• 糊嘴 (húzuǐ) (dated)
• 討生活／讨生活 (tǎoshēnghuó)
• 討食／讨食
• 謀生／谋生 (móushēng)
• 賺食／赚食 (Hakka, Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 趁食 (Min)
• 過活／过活 (guòhuó)