饑荒
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Chinese[edit]
hungry | out of practice; uncultivated | ||
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trad. (饑荒/飢荒) | 饑/飢 | 荒 | |
simp. (饥荒) | 饥 | 荒 |
Pronunciation[edit]
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ ㄏㄨㄤ → ㄐㄧ ˙ㄏㄨㄤ (toneless final syllable variant)
- Tongyong Pinyin: jihuång
- Wade–Giles: chi1-huang5
- Yale: jī-hwang
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji.huang
- Palladius: цзихуан (czixuan)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ xu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/ → /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ xu̯ɑŋ²/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Note: Toneless - regional and only for the second definition.
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: gei1 fong1
- Yale: gēi fōng
- Cantonese Pinyin: gei1 fong1
- Guangdong Romanization: géi1 fong1
- Sinological IPA (key): /kei̯⁵⁵ fɔːŋ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: kj+j xwang
Noun[edit]
饑荒
- (literally) famine; crop failure
- (figurative, colloquial) financial difficulty
- (figurative, colloquial) debt
Synonyms[edit]
- (famine):