混飯吃

See also: 混饭吃

Chinese

		to work for a living	eat; eradicate; destroy eat; eradicate; destroy; receive; stammer
trad. (混飯吃)		混飯	吃
simp. (混饭吃)		混饭	吃

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hùnfànchī

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄈㄢˋ ㄔ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁶ faan⁶ hek³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hùnfànchī
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄈㄢˋ ㄔ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hùnfànchih
    • Wade–Giles: hun⁴-fan⁴-chʻih¹
    • Yale: hwùn-fàn-chr̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huennfannchy
    • Palladius: хуньфаньчи (xunʹfanʹči)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵¹⁻⁵³ fän⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wan⁶ faan⁶ hek³
    • Yale: wahn faahn hek
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁶ faan⁶ hek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen⁶ fan⁶ hég³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn²² faːn²² hɛːk̚³/

Verb

混飯吃

1. to earn a living with a perfunctory attitude or through improper means
2. (colloquial) to engage in a job for making a living; to scrape a living
3. (colloquial) to eat at another person's expense

Synonyms

• (to scrape a living):

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• 做食 (Puxian Min)
• 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)
• 營生／营生 (yíngshēng)
• 糊口 (húkǒu)
• 糊嘴 (húzuǐ) (dated)
• 討生活／讨生活 (tǎoshēnghuó)
• 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)