食跋𨑨

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	travel; walk
trad. (食跋𨑨)		食	跋	𨑨
simp. #(食跋𨑨)		食	跋	𨑨
alternative forms		食博𨑨 食㧞𣅄 食拔勅 食跋佚
Literally: “eat/smoke, gamble, and play”.

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chia̍h poa̍h thit / chia̍h poa̍h chhit

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h poa̍h thit
    • Tâi-lô: tsia̍h pua̍h thit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciah poah tid
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siaʔ²⁴ puaʔ²⁴ tʰit̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siaʔ⁴ puaʔ⁴ tʰit̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h poa̍h chhit
    • Tâi-lô: tsia̍h pua̍h tshit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciah poah chid
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siaʔ⁴ puaʔ⁴ t͡sʰit̚³²/

Idiom

食跋𨑨

1. (Hokkien) to eat, drink and be merry; to seek pleasure instead of doing work

   • 朋友相招食㧞𣅄　𣅄到有冥共無日 [Hokkien, trad.]
     朋友相招食拔𣅄　𣅄到有冥共无日 [Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 1932, 勸世模範埋狗勸夫新歌 上本, page 2a

     pêng-iú sio-chio chia̍h poa̍h thit, thit kàu ū mî kāng bô ji̍t [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     Friends invited each other to eat, drink and be merry; they enjoyed themselves like there was night and no day

   • 一欵出去食拔勅　家內放下無火食 [Hokkien, trad.]
     一款出去食拔勅　家内放下无火食 [Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 1933, 勸世社會評論新歌, page 1b

     chi̍t khoán chhut-khì chia̍h poa̍h thit, ke-lāi pàng-hē bô hóe-si̍t [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     One type [of people] goes out to eat, drink and be merry, leaving their family with no food

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 吃喝玩樂 (“to eat, drink and be merry; to seek pleasure instead of doing work”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		吃喝玩樂
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	吃喝玩兒樂
	Taiwan	吃喝玩樂
	Singapore	吃喝玩樂
Cantonese	Hong Kong	吃喝玩樂
Southern Min	Xiamen	食啉𨑨, 啉食𨑨, 食跋𨑨
	Quanzhou	食跋𨑨
Wu	Shanghai	吃吃白相相
	Wuxi	吃吃白相相

References

• 周长楫 [Zhou, Changji], editor (2006), “食跋𨑨 [tsiah⁸ puah⁸ thit⁷]”, in 闽南方言大词典 MINNAN FANGYAN DA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Southern Min dialects] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Fuzhou: 福建人民出版社 [Fujian People's Publishing House], →ISBN, page 662.
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “thit”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 558; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 558
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “食博𨑨”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC