散食人

Chinese

		adjourn; scatter; leisurely adjourn; scatter; leisurely; loosen; powdered medicine; to scatter; to come loose	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	man; person; people
trad. (散食人)		散	食	人
simp. #(散食人)		散	食	人
alternative forms		散食儂／散食侬

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sàn-chia̍h-lâng

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sàn-chia̍h-lâng
    • Tâi-lô: sàn-tsia̍h-lâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sarnciaqlaang
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /san²¹⁻⁴¹ t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ laŋ²³/

Noun

散食人

1. (Kaohsiung Hokkien) poor person

Synonyms

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• 瘠薄 (jíbó) (literary)
• 窮人／穷人 (qióngrén)
• 貧乏／贫乏 (pínfá) (literary)
• 貧民／贫民 (pínmín)
• 貧瘠／贫瘠 (pínjí) (literary)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 窮人 (“poor person”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		窮人, 貧民
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	窮人, 窮鬼, 窮光蛋
	Harbin	窮光蛋
	Singapore	窮人
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	窮人, 窮光蛋, 窮棒棒子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	窮人, 窮光蛋, 溜光蛋, 溜光蛋兒
	Wanrong	窮骨頭
	Xi'an	窮人, 窮漢, 窮光蛋
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	窮骨頭
	Liuzhou	窮鬼
Cantonese	Guangzhou	窮人, 窮鬼
	Hong Kong	窮人, 窮鬼
Gan	Nanchang	窮人
	Lichuan	窮搭仔
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	窮苦人
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	窮苦人
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	窮苦人
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	窮苦人
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	窮苦人
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	散人
Jin	Taiyuan	窮人
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	窮儂
Southern Min	Xiamen	艱苦儂, 宋凶儂, 赤囝
	Quanzhou	艱苦儂, 赤囝
	Zhangzhou	艱苦儂, 散仔, 阿散仔, 赤囝
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	散凶儂
	Kaohsiung	散凶儂, 散食儂
	Yilan	散凶儂, 散赤儂
	Taichung	散赤儂
	Tainan	散凶儂, 散赤儂, 散鬼
	Hsinchu	散赤儂
	Kinmen	散赤儂
	Penghu (Magong)	散赤儂, 艱苦儂, 歹命儂
	Jieyang	磽囝, 磽囝儂
	Leizhou	窮儂, 窮鬼
	Haikou	窮儂
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	窮佬, 窮人, 窮鬼
Wu	Danyang	窮人, 窮光蛋, 窮塌皮
	Hangzhou	窮哥哥兒, 窮鬼
Xiang	Changsha	窮人子