食
Meanings · ji6
- used in names of people
Meanings · sik6
- to eat
- food
- animal feed
- eclipse
- to take something (such as medicine
- drugs)
- to smoke (cigarettes
- cigars etc)
- to suffer
- to consume
- to expend
- to rely on something for a living
- to take advantage of a situation to do something
- to subjugate
- to capture
- to take over
- to devour
- to defeat
- to have sex with
- to cheat
- to frame someone
- to receive something negative
- KangXi radical 184
Meanings · zi6
- to feed
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.
Reading difference from Unihan
- 食 has the reading ji6 here; Unihan’s citation reading is sik6. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 食 ji6 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
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-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 食 shí CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto eat; food; animal feed; eclipse
- 食 sì CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto feed (a person or animal)
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: shi2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 33 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ji6 · sik6 · zi6
Cantonese word readings for 食. 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.
Definitions
- (literary or Cantonese, Hakka) to eat; to have a meal; to take in
- (dialectal Cantonese, Hakka) to drink
- (Cantonese, Hakka) to take in; to inhale; to smoke
- (Cantonese) to consume; to use up
- (Cantonese, figurative) to extract; to extort; to absorb; to swallow
- (Cantonese) to absorb; to get into; to enter; to be stuck inside
- (Cantonese, Hakka, board games) to capture
- (Cantonese, mahjong) short for 食糊 (“to win”)
- (Cantonese) to receive; to be affected by; to be on the receiving end
- meal; food
- edible
- alternative form of 蝕 / 蚀 (shí, “to eat away; to erode”)
- eclipse
Definitions
- original form of 飼／饲 (sì, “to feed; to make ... eat or cause ... to eat”)
Definitions
- (Coastal Min) to eat; to have a meal; to take in
- (Coastal Min) to drink
- (Coastal Min) to take in; to inhale; to smoke
- (Southern Min) to embezzle; to misappropriate (money)
- (Eastern Min, Hokkien, Leizhou Min, board games) to capture
- (Southern Min) to consume; to use up
- (Hokkien) to suffer; to endure; to bear
- (Hokkien, mahjong) to chow
- (Hokkien, Leizhou Min) to dine at (a certain food establishment)
- (Southern Min) to rely on; to depend on
- (Hokkien, Leizhou Min) to engage in; to undertake; to do (for a living)
- (Southern Min) to live; to grow up
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to pick on; to bully; to push around
- (Mainland China Hokkien) to make a decision; to resolve to
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) to colour; to dye
- (Penang Hokkien, Teochew) cuisine
- (Leizhou Min) to be eaten away (by insects, etc.)
Definitions
- (Inland Min) alternative form of 饁 / 馌 (“to eat”)
Definitions
- Used in an ancient personal name.
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