饑荒

Chinese

		hungry	out of practice; uncultivated
trad. (饑荒/飢荒)		饑/飢	荒
simp. (饥荒)		饥	荒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīhuāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ ㄏㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei¹ fong¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ki-hng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīhuāng → jīhuang (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ ㄏㄨㄤ → ㄐㄧ ˙ㄏㄨㄤ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jihuång
    • Wade–Giles: chi¹-huang⁵
    • Yale: jī-hwang
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji.huang
    • Palladius: цзихуан (czixuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ xu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/ → /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ xu̯ɑŋ²/

Note: Toneless - regional and only for the second definition.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei¹ fong¹
    • Yale: gēi fōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹ fong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: géi¹ fong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵ fɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki-hng
    • Tâi-lô: ki-hng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ki'hngf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ki⁴⁴⁻²² hŋ̍⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ki³³ hŋ̍³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁴⁴⁻²² hŋ̍⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴⁴⁻³³ hŋ̍⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki⁴⁴⁻³³ hŋ̍⁴⁴/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 饑荒

1. (literally) famine; crop failure
2. (figurative) (financial) difficulty; trouble; debt

Synonyms

• (famine): 飢餓／饥饿 (jī'è), (literary): 饑饉／饥馑 (jījǐn), (Min Nan) 枵餓／枵饿