艱苦錢

See also: 艰苦钱

Chinese

		arduous; laborious; difficult arduous; laborious; difficult; hard	coin; money
trad. (艱苦錢)		艱苦	錢
simp. (艰苦钱)		艰苦	钱

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kan-khó͘-chîⁿ

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kan-khó͘-chîⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: kan-khóo-tsînn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kanqofcvii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kan⁴⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kan³³ kʰɔ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡sĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kan⁴⁴⁻²² kʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sĩ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kan⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰɔ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kan⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰɔ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sĩ²³/

Noun

艱苦錢

1. (Southern Min) hard-earned money

   • 恁老爸的錢，毋是天頂加落來的，是恁老爸上山落海、飼豬飼牛，作穡拖磨儉落來的艱苦錢。 [Hokkien, trad.]
     恁老爸的钱，毋是天顶加落来的，是恁老爸上山落海、饲猪饲牛，作穑拖磨俭落来的艰苦钱。 [Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 2012, 陳長慶 (Chang-ching Chen), 了尾仔囝, page 88

     Lín lāu-pē ê chîⁿ, m̄-sī thiⁿ-téng ke lo̍h-lâi--ê, sī lín lāu-pē chiūⁿ-soaⁿ lo̍h-hái, chhī tir chhī gû, choh-sit thoa-bôa khiām lo̍h-lâi ê kan-khó͘-chîⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     Your father's money doesn't just drop down from the sky, but it's hard-earned money he saved up from going up the mountains and out to the sea, from tending for pigs and cows, from working and toiling.

Synonyms

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• 肉裡分 / 肉里分 (⁸gnioq-li-fen) (Shanghainese)
• 血汗錢 / 血汗钱 (xuèhànqián)
• 辛苦錢 / 辛苦钱 (xīnkǔqián)