食得鹹魚抵得渴

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	get; obtain; gain get; obtain; gain; proper; suitable; proud; contented; allow; permit; ready; finished; a sentence particle used after a verb to show effect; degree or possibility; to have to; must; ought to; to need to	salted fish; zombie; corpse	to tolerate; to endure; to be worth	thirsty
trad. (食得鹹魚抵得渴/食得咸魚抵得渴)		食	得	鹹魚/咸魚	抵得	渴
simp. (食得咸鱼抵得渴)		食	得	咸鱼	抵得	渴
Literally: “if one eats salted fish, one must be able to stand the thirst”.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ dak¹ haam⁴ jyu⁴ dai² dak¹ hot³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sik⁶ dak¹ haam⁴ jyu⁴ dai² dak¹ hot³
    • Yale: sihk dāk hàahm yùh dái dāk hot
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ dak⁷ haam⁴ jy⁴ dai² dak⁷ hot⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ deg¹ ham⁴ yu⁴ dei² deg¹ hod³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² tɐk̚⁵ haːm²¹ jyː²¹ tɐi̯³⁵ tɐk̚⁵ hɔːt̚³/

Idiom

食得鹹魚抵得渴

1. (Cantonese) to have to bear the consequences of one's actions or choices