耳食

Chinese

		ear	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed
trad. (耳食)		耳	食
simp. #(耳食)		耳	食
Literally: “to eat/digest with one's ears”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ěrshí

  (Zhuyin): ㄦˇ ㄕˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁵ sik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ěrshí
    • Zhuyin: ㄦˇ ㄕˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ěrshíh
    • Wade–Giles: êrh³-shih²
    • Yale: ěr-shŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eelshyr
    • Palladius: эрши (erši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji⁵ sik⁶
    • Yale: yíh sihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁵ sik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁵ xig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː¹³ sɪk̚²/

Verb

耳食

1. (literary, figurative) to believe all that one hears; to give ready credence to rumours

Derived terms

• 耳食不化
• 耳食之徒
• 耳食之聞／耳食之闻
• 耳食之言
• 耳食之談／耳食之谈
• 耳食之論／耳食之论
• 耳食目論／耳食目论
• 道聽耳食／道听耳食

 

Noun

耳食

1. (literary, figurative) rumours; hearsay