食錢

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	coin; money
trad. (食錢)		食	錢
simp. (食钱)		食	钱

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ cin^4-2
Min Nan (POJ): chia̍h-chîⁿ

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sik⁶ cin^4-2
  - Yale: sihk chín
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ tsin^4-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ qin²
  - IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² t͡sʰiːn²¹⁻³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Hsinchu, Lukang, Kinmen, Magong, Sanxia, Taichung, Tainan, Yilan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chia̍h-chîⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tsia̍h-tsînn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciaqcvii
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕĩ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kinmen): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)⁵⁴⁻¹² t͡ɕĩ²⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ t͡ɕĩ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ t͡ɕĩ¹³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕĩ²³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕia(ʔ)²⁴⁻²² t͡ɕĩ²⁴/

Verb

食錢

(Min Nan) to embezzle; to be corrupt
(Hong Kong Cantonese, of an ATM) to "devour" banknotes: to mutilate banknotes

Synonyms

(to be corrupt): 貪污／贪污 (tānwū), 歪哥 (wāigē)

Derived terms

食錢官／食钱官

See also

吃錢／吃钱

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