貪食

Chinese

		greedy	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed
trad. (貪食)		貪	食
simp. (贪食)		贪	食

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): taam¹ sik⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): thâm-sṳ̍t

(Meixian, Guangdong): tam¹ sed⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tham-chia̍h / tham-cha̍h

(Teochew, Peng'im): tam¹ ziah⁸
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ¹thoe-zeq₈

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: taam¹ sik⁶
  - Yale: tāam sihk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: taam¹ sik⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tam¹ xig⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːm⁵⁵ sɪk̚²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thâm-sṳ̍t
  - Hakka Romanization System: tam^ˊ siid
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tam¹ sid⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰam²⁴⁻¹¹ sɨt̚⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: tam¹ sed⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰam⁴⁴ sət̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tham-chia̍h
  - Tâi-lô: tham-tsia̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tamciah
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰam⁴⁴⁻²² t͡siaʔ⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siaʔ⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰam³³ t͡siaʔ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰam⁴⁴⁻²² t͡siaʔ¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Longyan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tham-cha̍h
  - Tâi-lô: tham-tsa̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tamzah
  - IPA (Longyan): /tʰam³³⁴ t͡sa³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: tam¹ ziah⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tham tsia̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰam³³⁻²³ t͡siaʔ⁴/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ¹thoe-zeq₈
  - MiniDict: thoe^平 zeh^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹thoe-zeq₅
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰø⁵⁵ zəʔ²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /tʰø⁴⁴ zəʔ/

Adjective

貪食

(chiefly Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min) fond of eating; gluttonous; voracious

Synonyms

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上合合 (Hakka)
喙斗㾀 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
嘴饞 / 嘴馋 (zuǐchán)
圖食 / 图食 (Hakka)
好吃 (hàochī)
好食 (Cantonese, Hakka)
枵饞 / 枵馋 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
枵鬼 (Hokkien)
為食 / 为食 (wai⁶ sik⁶) (Cantonese)
豺食 (Hakka)
貪吃 / 贪吃 (tānchī)
貪嘴 / 贪嘴 (tānzuǐ)
貪饞 / 贪馋 (tānchán)
重食 (Hokkien)
饞嘴 / 馋嘴 (chánzuǐ)
饞食 / 馋食 (Taiwanese Hokkien)

Derived terms

貪食鬼 / 贪食鬼

References

郭启熹 [Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “贪食”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 [Lujiang Publishing House], →ISBN, page 274.