土裡刨食

Chinese

		earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian	inside; within; in inside; within; in; lining of clothing	eliminate; to dig; to question eliminate; to dig; to question; a plane; to plane; level or make smooth	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed
trad. (土裡刨食/土裏刨食)		土	裡/裏	刨	食
simp. (土里刨食)		土	里	刨	食
Literally: “to dig food from earth”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǔlǐpáoshí

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄆㄠˊ ㄕˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǔlǐpáoshí [Phonetic: túlǐpáoshí]
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄆㄠˊ ㄕˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǔlǐpáoshíh
    • Wade–Giles: tʻu³-li³-pʻao²-shih²
    • Yale: tǔ-lǐ-páu-shŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuuliipaurshyr
    • Palladius: тулипаоши (tulipaoši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ pʰɑʊ̯³⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵/

Verb

土裡刨食

1. (informal) to live as a farmworker, especially a preindustrial agricultural laborer
   • 2017, 白杨桥, “紫妞”, in 海峽兩岸網路原創文學創作大賽入圍作品選（7）短篇小說, 中版數媒:

     沒辦法，農民就得土裡刨食才能活下去。 [MSC, trad.]
     没办法，农民就得土里刨食才能活下去。 [MSC, simp.]

     Méibànfǎ, nóngmín jiù děi tǔlǐpáoshí cái néng huó xiàqù. [Pinyin]

     It is what it is. Peasants have to work on the farms to survive.