一樣米養百樣人
简 一样米养百样人 · 繁 一樣米養百樣人Meanings
- there are all sorts of people in this world [written and colloquial]
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: yi1yang4 mi3 yang3 bai3 yang4 ren2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
jat1 joeng6 mai5 joeng5 baak3 joeng6 jan4
Cantonese word readings for 一樣米養百樣人. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
proverb
- Everybody thinks and acts a little differently even when we are in the same environment
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