乞米

Chinese

		beg	rice; metre
trad. (乞米)		乞	米
simp. #(乞米)		乞	米

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qǐmǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˇ ㄇㄧˇ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): hat¹ mai⁵

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): hat² mai²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qǐmǐ [Phonetic: qímǐ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˇ ㄇㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǐmǐ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi³-mi³
    • Yale: chǐ-mǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiimii
    • Palladius: цими (cimi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hat¹ mai⁵
    • Yale: hāt máih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hat⁷ mai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: hed¹ mei⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐt̚⁵ mɐi̯¹³/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: hat² mai²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hat̚⁵⁵ ᵐbai⁵⁵/

Verb

乞米

1. (literary or Cantonese) to beg for food
2. (Taishanese) to beg (ask for food or money as charity)

Synonyms

• (to beg for food):

Dialectal synonyms of 要飯 (“to beg for food”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		乞食
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		討飯, 要飯
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	要飯
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	要飯
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	討米
Cantonese	Guangzhou	乞食
	Hong Kong	乞食
	Taishan	乞米
	Kaiping (Chikan)	乞米
Gan	Nanchang	討飯
Hakka	Meixian	討食
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	乞食, 討食
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	乞食, 討食
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	乞食, 討食
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	乞食, 討食
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	乞食, 討食
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	乞食, 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

• (to beg for food or money):

• 乞討／乞讨 (qǐtǎo)
• 分 (Min Nan)
• 行乞 (xíngqǐ)
• 討乞／讨乞 (tǎoqǐ)
• 討食／讨食 (“to beg for food”) (Hokkien, Teochew)