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飯桶

简 饭桶 · 繁 飯桶
Mandarin · pinyin fàn tǒng

Meanings

  1. rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served)
  2. (fig.) fathead
  3. a good-for-nothing
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飯
fàn · cooked rice; food; meal
桶
tǒng · pail, bucket, tub; cask, keg
饭
fàn · cooked rice; food, meal
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4–3 · fan4 tong3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

faan6 tung2

Cantonese word readings for 飯桶. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

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noun

  1. container used for storing cooked rice
  2. (figurative) glutton; gormandizer
  3. (figurative, derogatory) useless individual; imbecile (mocking someone for being able to do nothing except eating)

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