食暗

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	dark; gloomy; hidden dark; gloomy; hidden; secret
trad. (食暗)		食	暗
simp. #(食暗)		食	暗

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chia̍h-àm

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-àm
    • Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-àm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciaq'axm
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ am¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines): /t͡sia(ʔ)²⁴⁻² am⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sia(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ am²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /t͡sia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ am²¹/

Verb

食暗

1. (Southern Min) to eat dinner

Synonyms

• (Hakka) 食夜
• (Eastern Min) 食暝
• (Hokkien, Teochew, Leizhou) 食下昏, 食暗頓／食暗顿, 食下昏頓／食下昏顿, 食暝昏

Dialectal synonyms of 吃晚飯 (“to eat dinner”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		吃晚餐, 吃晚飯, 晚膳 Hong Kong
Cantonese	Hong Kong	食晚飯, 食晚餐, 食夜晚
Hakka	Meixian	食夜
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	食夜
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	食夜
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	食夜
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	食夜
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	食夜
	Miaoli (Zhuolan; Raoping)	食暗夜
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	食暝
Southern Min	Xiamen	食暗, 食暗頓, 食下昏, 食下昏頓
	Quanzhou	食暗, 食暗頓
	Jinjiang	食暗, 食暗頓
	Zhangzhou	食暗, 食下昏, 食下昏頓
	Tainan	食暗 GT
	Manila (Hokkien)	食暗, 食暗頓
	Leizhou	食暝昏, 食暝昏糜

Further reading

• “Entry #5668”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.