蠶食

See also: 蚕食

Chinese

		silkworm	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed
trad. (蠶食)		蠶	食
simp. (蚕食)		蚕	食
Literally: “to eat like a silkworm”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cánshí

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˊ ㄕˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caam⁴ sik⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhâm-si̍t / chhân-si̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cánshí
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˊ ㄕˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cánshíh
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan²-shih²
    • Yale: tsán-shŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsarnshyr
    • Palladius: цаньши (canʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän³⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caam⁴ sik⁶
    • Yale: chàahm sihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaam⁴ sik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cam⁴ xig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːm²¹ sɪk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhâm-si̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tshâm-si̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhamsit
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰam²⁴⁻²² sit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰam²⁴⁻²² sit̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhân-si̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tshân-si̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhansit
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰan¹³⁻²² sit̚¹²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dzom zyik

Rime
Character	蠶	食
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	船 (27)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	昨含切	乗力切
Baxter	dzom	zyik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zʌm/	/ʑɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zəm/	/ʑɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zɒm/	/ʑiek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zəm/	/ʑik̚/
Li Rong	/d͡zᴀm/	/d͡ʑiək̚/
Wang Li	/d͡zɒm/	/d͡ʑĭək̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡zʱăm/	/d͡ʑʰi̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cán	shí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caam4	sik6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.[dz]ˤ[ə]m  mə-lək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*zluːm  ɦljɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蠶	食
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cán	shí
Middle Chinese	‹ dzom ›	‹ zyik ›
Old Chinese	/*C.[dz]ˁ[ə]m/	/*mə-lək/
English	silkworm	eat
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蠶	食
Reading #	1/1	2/2
No.	6702	11477
Phonetic component	兓	食
Rime group	侵	職
Rime subdivision	3	0
Corresponding MC rime	蠶
Old Chinese	/*zluːm/	/*ɦljɯɡ/

Verb

蠶食

1. (literary) to encroach upon; to eat away; to nibble away at
   • 2024, 林家謙 [Terence Lam] (lyrics and music), “無答案 [Nocture]”‎^[1]performed by 林家謙 [Terence Lam]:

     幽房釋出的光猶如被蠶食過 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     幽房释出的光犹如被蚕食过 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     jau¹ fong^4-2 sik¹ ceot¹ dik¹ gwong¹ jau⁴ jyu⁴ bei⁶ caam⁴ sik⁶ gwo³ [Jyutping]

     The light emitting out of the secluded room seems as if it were nibbled away

Derived terms

• 蠶食鯨吞 / 蚕食鲸吞 (cánshíjīngtūn)