要よう飯めし

Chinese

		important; vital; to want important; vital; to want; to be going to; must; demand; ask; request; coerce	food; cuisine; cooked rice food; cuisine; cooked rice; meal
trad. (要よう飯めし)		要よう	飯めし
simp. (要よう饭)		要よう	饭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yàofàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˋ ㄈㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu³ faan⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yàofàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˋ ㄈㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yàofàn
    • Wade–Giles: yao⁴-fan⁴
    • Yale: yàu-fàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yawfann
    • Palladius: яофань (jaofanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ fän⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jiu³ faan⁶
    • Yale: yiu faahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jiu³ faan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yiu³ fan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯³³ faːn²²/

Verb

要よう⫽飯めし (verb-object)

1. (literally) to want food
2. to beg for food

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 要よう飯めし (“to beg for food”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		乞食こじき
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		討飯, 要よう飯めし
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	要よう飯めし
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	要よう飯めし
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	討米
Cantonese	Guangzhou	乞食こじき
	Hong Kong	乞食こじき
	Taishan	乞米
	Kaiping (Chikan)	乞米
Gan	Nanchang	討飯
Hakka	Meixian	討食
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	乞食こじき, 討食
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	乞食こじき, 討食
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	乞食こじき, 討食
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	乞食こじき, 討食
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	乞食こじき, 討食
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	乞食こじき, 討食
Huizhou	Jixi	討飯
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	討食
Southern Min	Xiamen	討食
	Quanzhou	討食
	Zhangzhou	討食
	Jieyang	討食
	Leizhou	討米
Wu	Shanghai	討飯
	Wenzhou	討飯, 搝米
	Jinhua	討飯
Xiang	Changsha	討米
	Loudi	討米

Derived terms

• 要よう飯めし的てき／要よう饭的 (yàofànde)