忠忠直直終須乞食
简 忠忠直直终须乞食 · 繁 忠忠直直終須乞食Meanings
- being too honest leads one to poverty [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: zhong1 zhong1zhi2 zhi2 zhong1 xu1 qi3shi2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
zung1 zung1 zik6 zik6 zung1 seoi1 hat1 sik6
Cantonese word readings for 忠忠直直終須乞食. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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