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

(Hailu, HRS): tam^ˋ shid^ˋ

(Meixian, Guangdong): tam¹ sed⁶
Eastern Min (BUC): tăng-siĕk
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): tang¹ siah⁷ / tang¹ sia⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tham-chia̍h / tham-cha̍h

(Teochew, Peng'im): tam¹ ziah⁸

(Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): tam¹ jia⁶
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/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: tam^ˋ shid^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰam⁵³ ʃit²/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: tam¹ sed⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰam⁴⁴ sət̚⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: tăng-siĕk
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaŋ⁵⁵ ^(s-)nieʔ⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tang¹ siah⁷ [Phonetic: tang⁵ niah⁷]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: tang-sia̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)niæʔ⁴/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tang¹ sia⁷ [Phonetic: tang⁵ nia⁷]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)nia²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tham-chia̍h
  - Tâi-lô: tham-tsia̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tamciah
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /tʰam⁴⁴⁻²² t͡siaʔ⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡siaʔ⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰam³³ t͡siaʔ²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰam⁴⁴⁻²² t͡siaʔ¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Longyan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tham-cha̍h
  - Tâi-lô: tham-tsa̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tamzah
  - Sinological IPA (Longyan): /tʰam³³⁴ t͡sa³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: tam¹ ziah⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tham tsia̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰam³³⁻²³ t͡siaʔ⁴/
- (Leizhou)
  - Leizhou Pinyin: tam¹ jia⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /tʰam³⁵⁻³³ t͡sia³³/
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, Coastal 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)
枵荒 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
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)

Dialectal synonyms of 貪吃 (“gluttonous; fond of eating”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		貪吃, 貪嘴, 好吃, 饞嘴, 嘴饞, 貪饞
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	貪吃, 貪嘴
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	嘴饞
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	饞
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	饞
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	饞, 嘴饞
Southwestern Mandarin	Liuzhou	嘴巴饞
Cantonese	Guangzhou	為食
	Hong Kong	為食
	Taishan	頸赤
	Kaiping (Chikan)	頸赤
Hakka	Meixian	貪食, 好食
Hakka	Yudu	好食
Northern Min	Jian'ou	烏饁, 貪饁
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	貪食
Southern Min	Xiamen	貪食, 重食, 癮食
	Quanzhou	貪食, 重食, 癮食
	Zhangzhou	貪食, 重食, 癮食, 喙斗㾀
	Tainan	貪食, 饞食
	Shantou	好食
	Jieyang	好食
	Leizhou	饞食
Puxian Min	Putian	貪食
Puxian Min	Xianyou	貪食
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	謀吃, 貪吃, 嘴饞
Wu	Shanghai	饞, 饞癆, 猴, 貪嘴
	Shanghai (Chongming)	饞
	Hangzhou	饞癆
	Ningbo	饞癆
	Jinhua	貪吃

Derived terms

貪食窟 / 贪食窟
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.
莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “贪食”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 524.