食果子拜樹頭
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Chinese[edit]
eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed |
fruit; apple | to pay respect; worship; visit to pay respect; worship; visit; salute |
top of a tree; branches of a tree | ||
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trad. (食果子拜樹頭) | 食 | 果子 | 拜 | 樹頭 | |
simp. (食果子拜树头) | 食 | 果子 | 拜 | 树头 | |
Literally: “to pay respect to the roots when one eats the fruit”. |
Pronunciation[edit]
Proverb[edit]
食果子拜樹頭
Synonyms[edit]
Dialectal synonyms of 飲水思源 (“to remember where one's happiness comes from; to not forget one's roots or heritage”) [map]
Variety | Location | Words |
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 飲水思源, 飲流懷源, 飲水知源 | |
Mandarin | Taiwan | 飲水思源 |
Singapore | 飲水思源 | |
Cantonese | Hong Kong | 飲水思源 |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 食果子拜樹頭,食米飯敬鋤頭, 食果子拜樹頭, 食水果拜樹頭 |
Quanzhou | 食果子拜樹頭,食米飯敬鋤頭, 食果子拜樹頭 | |
Zhangzhou | 食果子拜樹頭,食米飯敬鋤頭, 食果子拜樹頭 | |
Taipei | 食果子拜樹頭,食米飯拜田頭 | |
Tainan | 食果子拜樹頭 |