要飯

Chinese

		important; vital; to want important; vital; to want; to be going to; must; demand; ask; request; coerce	food; cuisine; cooked rice food; cuisine; cooked rice; meal
trad. (要飯)		要	飯
simp. (要饭)		要	饭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yàofàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˋ ㄈㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu³ faan⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yàofàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˋ ㄈㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yàofàn
    • Wade–Giles: yao⁴-fan⁴
    • Yale: yàu-fàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yawfann
    • Palladius: яофань (jaofanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ fän⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 要犯 要飯／要饭

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jiu³ faan⁶
    • Yale: yiu faahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu³ faan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yiu³ fan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯³³ faːn²²/

Verb

要⫽飯 (verb-object)

1. (literally) to want food
2. 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
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	要飯
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	要飯
Southwestern Mandarin	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

Derived terms

• 要飯的／要饭的 (yàofànde)