缺糧

Chinese

		lack; scarce; vacant post lack; scarce; vacant post; to run short of	grain; provisions
trad. (缺糧)		缺	糧
simp. (缺粮)		缺	粮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): quēliáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄝ ㄌㄧㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyut³ loeng⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khoat-niû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: quēliáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄝ ㄌㄧㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyueliáng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻüeh¹-liang²
    • Yale: chywē-lyáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiueliang
    • Palladius: цюэлян (cjueljan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛ⁵⁵ li̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kyut³ loeng⁴
    • Yale: kyut lèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyt⁸ loeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: küd³ lêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰyːt̚³ lœːŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khoat-niû
    • Tâi-lô: khuat-niû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoatniuu
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰuat̚³²⁻⁴ niũ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰuat̚³²⁻⁴ niũ²³/

Verb

缺糧

1. to lack grains

   • 使現在還存在的農村中一小部分缺糧戶不再缺糧，除了專門經營經濟作物的某些農戶以外，統統變為餘糧戶或者自給戶。 [MSC, trad.]
     使现在还存在的农村中一小部分缺粮户不再缺粮，除了专门经营经济作物的某些农户以外，统统变为余粮户或者自给户。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1957, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《關於正確處理人民內部矛盾的問題》 (On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Shǐ xiànzài hái cúnzài de nóngcūn zhōng yī xiǎobùfen quēliánghù bùzài quēliáng, chúle zhuānmén jīngyíng jīngjì zuòwù de mǒuxiē nónghù yǐwài, tǒngtǒng biànwéi yúliánghù huòzhě zìjǐhù. [Pinyin]

     In this way, the small number of grain-deficient households still found in the countryside will stop being short, all peasant households, except some raising industrial crops, will either have grain reserves or at least become self-sufficient.

2. to lack food; to lack food supplies