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食物

Chinese edit

 
eat; food; to feed
eat; food; to feed; animal feed
 thing; object; matter
trad. (食物) 食 物
simp. #(食物) 食 物
anagram 物食

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • si̍t-bu̍t - literary;
  • chia̍h-mn̍gh/chia̍h-mi̍h - colloquial.
Rime
Character 食 物
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 船 (27) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 蒸 (134) 文 (60)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 乗力切 文弗切
Baxter zyik mjut
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʑɨk̚/ /mɨut̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʑɨk̚/ /miut̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʑiek̚/ /miuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʑik̚/ /mut̚/
Li
Rong 		/d͡ʑiək̚/ /miuət̚/
Wang
Li 		/d͡ʑĭək̚/ /mĭuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/d͡ʑʰi̯ək̚/ /mi̯uət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shí wù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sik6 mat6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 食 物
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shí wù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ zyik › ‹ mjut ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mə-lək/ /*C.mut/
English eat thing

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 食 物
Reading # 2/2 1/1
No. 11477 13218
Phonetic
component 		食 勿
Rime
group 		職 物
Rime
subdivision 		0 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		物
Old
Chinese 		/*ɦljɯɡ/ /*mɯd/

Noun edit

食物

  1. food

Usage notes edit

There is no exact equivalent for English food in Chinese. The most generic term for food is 食物 (shíwù). Use 食品 (shípǐn) for food products, 菜餚／菜肴 (càiyáo) for dishes of food, 美食 (měishí) when the taste of the food is emphasised and 吃的 (chīde) in colloquial contexts. For food as in cuisine, consider 菜 (cài) or 料理 (liàolǐ).

Synonyms edit

Dialectal synonyms of 食物 (“food”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 食物
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 食物
Mandarin Beijing 吃食, 吃兒
Taiwan 食物
Harbin 食物
Jinan 食物, 食品
Wanrong 吃的
Xi'an 吃的
Yinchuan 吃的, 吃頭
Xining 吃食
Wuhan 吃食
Chengdu 吃的, 吃貨
Guiyang 吃的
Guilin 吃的
Liuzhou 吃的東西, 食物
Xuzhou 吃食
Singapore 食物
Cantonese Hong Kong 嘢食, 食物
Gan Pingxiang 吃食
Hakka Meixian 食物
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 食物
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 食物
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 食物
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 食物
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 食物
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 食物
Huizhou Jixi 食品
Jin Taiyuan 食物
Eastern Min Fuzhou 食其乇
Southern Min Xiamen 食物, 物食, 食食
Quanzhou 食物, 食食
Zhangzhou 食物, 物食, 食食
Tainan 食物, 物食
Singapore (Hokkien) 食食, 物食
Manila (Hokkien) 食物, 食食
Leizhou 物食
Haikou 物食
Zhongshan Min Shaxi (Longdu) 食物
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 食物
Wu Shanghai 吃個物事
Shanghai (Chongming) 吃食物事
Xiang Loudi 吃個

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (食物):

See also edit

Japanese edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
食 物
しょく
Grade: 2 		もつ
Grade: 3
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 食物 (zyik mjut, literally “eat + thing”). Possible alteration from strict goon reading jikimotsu, changing goon jiki for kan'on shoku.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

食(しょく)物(もつ) • (shokumotsu) 

  1. food, foodstuff
  2. (more broadly) food and drink
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
食 物
じき
Grade: 2 		もつ
Grade: 3
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 食物 (zyik mjut, literally “eat + thing”). Possible original reading.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Tokyo) じき​もつ [jìkíꜜmòtsù] (Nakadaka – [2])
  • IPA(key): [d͡ʑikʲimo̞t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun edit

食(じき)物(もつ) • (jikimotsu) 

  1. (rare) food, foodstuff
Usage notes edit

The shokumotsu reading is more common.

Etymology 3 edit

Kanji in this term
食 物
しょく
Grade: 2 		ぶつ
Grade: 3
on’yomi

From Chinese 食物 (shíwù). Possible reborrowing, or change influenced by later contact with China after borrowing of earlier goon reading jikimotsu.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Tokyo) しょく​ぶつ [shòkúꜜbùtsù] (Nakadaka – [2])
  • IPA(key): [ɕo̞kɯ̟ᵝbɯ̟ᵝt͡sɨᵝ]

Noun edit

食(しょく)物(ぶつ) • (shokubutsu) 

  1. (rare) food, foodstuff
Usage notes edit

The shokumotsu reading is more common. The shokubutsu reading is generally avoided, due to the potential for confusion with the more-common term 植物 (shokubutsu, “plant, plant life”).

Etymology 4 edit

Kanji in this term
食 物
た(べ)
Grade: 2 		もの
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Compound of 食べ (tabe, “stem noun form of verb 食べる (taberu, “to eat”): eating”) +‎ 物 (mono, “thing”).[4][1]

For disambiguation, this is more commonly written with the okurigana べ in the middle as 食べ物.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

食(たべ)物(もの) • (tabemono) 

  1. 食べ物: food in general; a specific food; one's diet
    See 食べ物 for more detail.

Etymology 5 edit

Kanji in this term
食 物
く(い)
Grade: 2 		もの
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Compound of 食い (kui, “stem noun form of informal verb 食う (kuu, “to eat”): eating”) +‎ 物 (mono, “thing”).[4][1]

For disambiguation, this is more commonly written with the okurigana い in the middle as 食い物.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

食(くい)物(もの) • (kuimono) ←くひもの (kufimono)?

  1. 食い物: food; a sexual partner; a patsy, someone tricked into being used for someone else's gain
    See 食い物 for more detail.

Verb edit

食(くい)物(もの)する • (kuimono suru) ←くひもの (kufimono)?suru (stem 食(くい)物(もの)し (kuimono shi), past 食(くい)物(もの)した (kuimono shita))

  1. 食い物: to cook, to prepare food
    See 食い物 for more detail.

Etymology 6 edit

Kanji in this term
食 物
く(らい)
Grade: 2 		もの
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Compound of 食らい (kurai, “stem noun form of informal verb 食らう (kurau, “to eat, to drink”): eating, drinking”) +‎ 物 (mono, “thing”).[4][1]

For disambiguation, this is more commonly written with the okurigana らい in the middle as 食らい物.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [kɯ̟ᵝɾa̠imo̞no̞]

Noun edit

食(くらい)物(もの) • (kuraimono) ←くらひもの (kurafimono)?

  1. (rare, possibly obsolete) 食らい物: food and beverage

Etymology 7 edit

Kanji in this term
食 物
は(み)
Grade: 2 		もの
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Compound of 食み (hami, “stem noun form of verb 食む (hamu, “to chew; to eat; to suck down; to incur a loss”): eating”) +‎ 物 (mono, “thing”).[4][1]

For disambiguation, this is written with the okurigana み in the middle as 食み物.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

食(はみ)物(もの) • (hamimono) 

  1. (rare, possibly obsolete) 食み物: food; more specifically, fodder or feed for animals
Synonyms edit

Etymology 8 edit

Kanji in this term
食 物
お(し)
Grade: 2 		もの
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Compound of 食し (oshi, “stem noun form of honorific verb 食す (osu, “to eat, to drink”, honorific): eating, drinking”) +‎ 物 (mono, “thing”).[4]

For disambiguation, this is written with the okurigana し in the middle as 食し物.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

食(おし)物(もの) • (oshimono) ←をしもの (wosimono)?

  1. (rare, possibly obsolete, formal honorific) 食し物: (rare) food and beverage

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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