餓肚

Chinese

		to be hungry; hungry	belly; tripe
trad. (餓肚)		餓	肚
simp. (饿肚)		饿	肚
anagram		肚餓／肚饿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): èdù

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ ㄉㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngo⁶ tou⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngo-tú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: èdù
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ ㄉㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: èdù
    • Wade–Giles: o⁴-tu⁴
    • Yale: è-dù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ehduh
    • Palladius: эду (edu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ tu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngo⁶ tou⁵
    • Yale: ngoh tóuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngo⁶ tou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngo⁶ tou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɔː²² tʰou̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngo-tú
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngo du`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngo⁴ du³
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋo⁵⁵ tu³¹/

Verb

餓肚

1. to go hungry

   • 在給養豐富的地方要注意不使戰士吃得太飽，在給養不足的地方卻要注意不使戰士餓肚。 [MSC, trad.]
     在给养丰富的地方要注意不使战士吃得太饱，在给养不足的地方却要注意不使战士饿肚。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1936, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國革命戰爭的戰略問題》 (Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zài jǐyǎng fēngfù de dìfang yào zhùyì bù shǐ zhànshì chī de tài bǎo, zài jǐyǎng bùzú de dìfang què yào zhùyì bù shǐ zhànshì èdù. [Pinyin]

     One must see to it that the soldiers do not overeat when supplies are abundant, and take care that they do not go hungry when supplies are short.

Synonyms

• 受餓／受饿 (shòu'è)
• 打餓肚／打饿肚 (da³ o⁵ dou³) (Xiang)
• 挨餓／挨饿 (ái'è)
• 枵餓／枵饿 (Quanzhou Hokkien, Xiamen Hokkien)
• 餓肚子／饿肚子 (è dùzi)
• 餓肚皮／饿肚皮 (⁶ngu-du-bi) (Wu)
• 餓飯／饿饭 (èfàn) (regional)