好食懶做

Chinese

		delicious; delectable; tasty delicious; delectable; tasty; scrumptious; yummy	lazy	to do; to make; to produce
trad. (好食懶做)		好食	懶	做
simp. (好食懒做)		好食	懒	做

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou³ sik⁶ laan⁵ zou⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): hau-sṳ̍t-nân-cho / hau-sṳ̍t-lân-cho

  (Hailu, HRS): hau^ˇ shid^ˋ nan^ˋ zo^ˇ

  (Meixian, Guangdong): hau⁴ sed⁶ lan¹ zo⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou³ sik⁶ laan⁵ zou⁶
    • Yale: hou sihk láahn jouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou³ sik⁹ laan⁵ dzou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou³ xig⁶ lan⁵ zou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³³ sɪk̚² laːn¹³ t͡sou̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hau-sṳ̍t-nân-cho
    • Hakka Romanization System: hau siid nan^ˊ zo
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hau⁴ sid⁶ nan¹ zo⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /hau̯⁵⁵ sɨt̚⁵ nan²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡so⁵⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hau-sṳ̍t-lân-cho
    • Hakka Romanization System: hau siid lan^ˊ zo
    • Hagfa Pinyim: hau⁴ sid⁶ lan¹ zo⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /hau̯⁵⁵ sɨt̚⁵ lan²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡so⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: hau^ˇ shid^ˋ nan^ˋ zo^ˇ
    • Sinological IPA: /hau¹¹ ʃit² nan⁵³ t͡so¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: hau⁴ sed⁶ lan¹ zo⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /hau⁵³ sət̚⁵ lan⁴⁴⁻³⁵ t͡so⁵³/

Idiom

好食懶做

1. (Cantonese, Hakka) to be fond of eating and averse to work; to be piggish
   • 2012, 黃翠芳 [Grace Huang] (lyrics and music), “阿奶好作 [Easy To Be A Lady]”, in 牽等你介手 [Hold Your Hands]‎^[1], performed by 黃翠芳 [Grace Huang]:

     有兜人好食懶做　囥在屋下　還等爺娘來畜 [Hailu Hakka, trad.]
     有兜人好食懒做　囥在屋下　还等爷娘来畜 [Hailu Hakka, simp.]

     rhiuˋ deuˋ ngin hauˇ shidˋ nanˋ zoˇ, kongˇ diˇ vug haˋ, han denˊ rha ngiong loi hiug [Taiwanese Hakka Romanization System]

     Some people love eating and are lazy. They stay at home and wait for their parents to provide for them.

   • 2017, 郭釗, 《HEA富學：一天只做2小時的創富方程式》, Hong Kong: 天窗出版社, →ISBN, page 180:

     正如投資日本樓，一想到收租事宜完全依賴那間香港仲介，我就極不安心，它可能發咗達好食懶做，也可能執笠不做，或者夾帶私逃，怎麼辦？ [Cantonese, trad.]
     正如投资日本楼，一想到收租事宜完全依赖那间香港仲介，我就极不安心，它可能发咗达好食懒做，也可能执笠不做，或者夹带私逃，怎么办？ [Cantonese, simp.]

     zing³ jyu⁴ tau⁴ zi¹ jat⁶ bun² lau^4-2, jat¹ soeng² dou³ sau¹ zou¹ si⁶ ji⁴ jyun⁴ cyun⁴ ji¹ laai⁶ naa⁵ gaan¹ hoeng¹ gong² zung⁶ gaai³, ngo⁵ zau⁶ gik⁶ bat¹ on¹ sam¹, taa¹ ho² nang⁴ faat³ zo² daat⁶ hou³ sik⁶ laan⁵ zou⁶, jaa⁵ ho² nang⁴ zap¹ lap¹ bat¹ zou⁶, waak⁶ ze² gaap³ daai³ si¹ tou⁴, zam² mo¹ baan⁶? [Jyutping]

     Just like with investing in Japanese properties, once I realized that rent collection is completely reliant on that agency in Hong Kong, I became very anxious. Maybe after making a fortune, they will love ease and be lazy, maybe they will just close down the business, or maybe they will just run off. What can I do?

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 好吃懶做 (“to love ease and be averse to work”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		好吃懶做, 好逸惡勞
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	好吃懶做
	Taiwan	好吃懶做
	Singapore	好吃懶做
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	奸饞實懶
Cantonese	Guangzhou	好食懶飛
	Hong Kong	好食懶飛, 好食懶做
Gan	Pingxiang	好吃死懶
Hakka	Meixian	好食懶做, 好食懶
	Xingning	好食懶做
	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	好食懶做
	Yudu	好食懶做
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	好食懶做, 吂食肚飢，食飽懶屍
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	好食懶做, 無食肚飢，食飽懶屍
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	好食懶做, 吂食肚飢，食飽懶屍
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	好食懶做, 吂食肚飢，食飽懶屍
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	好食懶做, 吂食肚飢，食飽懶屍
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	愛食懶屍做
Southern Min	Xiamen	欲食毋做, 欲食毋振動, 食欲好，做欲輕可, 食飯三戰呂布，做事桃花搭渡, 食飯三戰呂布，做事桃花撐搭渡, 食飯大碗公，做工課閃西風, 食飯大碗公，做事閃西風, 食飯食碗公，做穡閃西風, 食飯食碗公，做穡洩屎風, 食飯用碗公，做代誌閃西風, 食飯三碗公，作穡閃西風
	Quanzhou	欲食毋振動, 食欲好，做欲輕可, 食飯三戰呂布，做事桃花搭渡, 食飯大碗公，做工課閃西風
	Zhangzhou	欲食毋振動, 食欲好，做欲輕可, 食飯三戰呂布，做事桃花搭渡, 食飯大碗公，做工課閃西風
	Tainan	欲食毋振動, 食欲好，做欲輕可
	Singapore (Hokkien)	食欲好，做要輕可, 食飯大碗公，做事閃西風, 食飯三戰呂布，做工桃花搭渡
	Longyan	好食懶
	Shantou	好食惰做
	Jieyang	力食惰作, 惰作力食, 好食惰作
	Haikou	力食惰作
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	勤吃懶做