討生活

Chinese

		ask for; send punitive expedition; to demand ask for; send punitive expedition; to demand; to marry	life; livelihood
trad. (討生活)		討	生活
simp. (讨生活)		讨	生活

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǎoshēnghuó

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄠˇ ㄕㄥ ㄏㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tou² sang¹ wut⁶
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵tau-san-weq; ⁵tau-sen-weq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǎoshēnghuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄠˇ ㄕㄥ ㄏㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǎoshenghuó
    • Wade–Giles: tʻao³-shêng¹-huo²
    • Yale: tǎu-shēng-hwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taoshenghwo
    • Palladius: таошэнхо (taošɛnxo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ xu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tou² sang¹ wut⁶
    • Yale: tóu sāng wuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tou² sang¹ wut⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: tou² seng¹ wud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰou̯³⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵ wuːt̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tau-san-weq; ⁵tau-sen-weq
    • MiniDict: tau^去 san weh; tau^去 sen weh
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tau-san-hhueq; ²tau-sen-hhueq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tɔ³³ sã⁵⁵ ɦuəʔ²¹/, /tɔ³³ sən⁵⁵ ɦuəʔ²¹/

Verb

討生活

1. to make a living
2. (Shanghainese) to need a beating

Synonyms

• 尋食／寻食 (Hakka)
• 就食 (jiùshí) (literary)
• 度三頓／度三顿 (Xiamen Hokkien, with difficulty, Zhangzhou Hokkien, with difficulty)
• 度喙飽／度喙饱 (Hokkien, with difficulty)
• 度食 (Hokkien)
• 搵食／揾食 (wan² sik⁶) (Cantonese)
• 混飯吃／混饭吃 (hùnfànchī) (colloquial)
• 營生／营生 (yíngshēng)
• 糊口 (húkǒu)
• 糊嘴 (húzuǐ) (dated)
• 討食／讨食
• 謀生／谋生 (móushēng)
• 賺食／赚食 (Hakka, Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 趁食 (Min)
• 過活／过活 (guòhuó)

 

• (to need a beating):

Dialectal synonyms of 欠揍 (“to need a beating”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	欠揍, 欠打, 討打
	Harbin	欠揍, 欠搧
	Singapore	欠打, 欠扁
Jilu Mandarin	Tianjin	欠揍
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	欠搧, 欠撇, 欠敲, 欠揍
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	欠打, 欠挨
	Xuzhou	欠揍
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nantong	尋打, 討打
Cantonese	Hong Kong	欠打, 五行欠打, 五行欠抦
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	賺皮痛
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	賺皮痛
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	賺皮痛
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	賺皮疾, 賺皮癢
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	賺皮疾
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	討皮疾
Southern Min	Xiamen	欠拍
	Quanzhou	欠拍
	Jinjiang	欠拍
	Zhangzhou	欠拍
	Taipei (Wanhua)	欠拍
	Kaohsiung	討皮疼
	Yilan	討肉疼
	Changhua (Lukang)	欠拍
	Taichung	欠拍
	Taichung (Wuqi)	欠推
	Tainan	欠拍, 討皮疼
	Taitung	欠拍
	Hsinchu	欠舂
	Penghu (Magong)	欠拍
	Singapore (Hokkien)	欠拍
	Manila (Hokkien)	欠拍, 欠㧌
Wu	Shanghai	討生活, 討打